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Praecones Analytica

Research draft
Polls since 2024
1
Latest poll ended
December 28, 2025

Polls from the VoteHub polling API, used under CC BY 4.0. Each result links to the pollster's or sponsor's own release. Imported once a day; a poll VoteHub later changes keeps its earlier version on record here.

§1About

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Praecones Analytica describes itself on its website as a firm offering sample construction, data collection, survey analysis and reporting, and says its analyses are done entirely by academics with doctorates working at research universities.1,2,3 Its people page names Jonathan D. Klingler, an associate professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, as principal analyst, with J. Tyson Chatagnier and Grant L. Ferguson as research analysts, and says the firm is not affiliated with their universities.2 It also runs The Oxford Poll, which its website describes as a recurring mail-to-web survey of Oxford residents that also runs sponsored questions for local businesses and organizations.4

Kind
Commercial firm1,3

§2Who it works with

Why this matters: Owners, news partners and the firms behind a poll's interviews shape what gets asked, how, and what gets published.

News partners

  • New Hampshire Journal (2016–now). Its website describes its services for the New Hampshire Journal, posts a 2016 polling memo for the outlet, and lists recent New Hampshire Journal poll stories.1,3

Led by

  • Jonathan D. Klingler. Its people page lists Jonathan D. Klingler as principal analyst.2

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first5. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
New Hampshire Journal1December 28, 2025No

§3Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Doesn’t say whom it works for. Its website describes its services and staff but does not say whether it works for candidates or parties.1,3

Of its 1 poll listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor5.

§4Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close a firm's final polls came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data6,7: general-election polls between a Democrat and a Republican in the last three weeks before each election, compared with the certified result. FiveThirtyEight rated each name polls were published under separately. Across all 8,957 such polls, the average miss was D+0.7, so the relative figure takes out the misses every pollster shared that year.

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the result's; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did.
Published asPollsElectionsAverage missRelative to other pollsTypical size of miss538's last rating
Praecones Analytica32016R+1.8R+5.01.8 pts2.0 of 3

ABC News closed FiveThirtyEight in March 2025; its data stops at the 2022 elections. 2026 results will be added once states certify them.

§5Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
December 26–December 28, 2025U.S. Senate · 2026 New HampshireChris Pappas 42.3 · John Sununu 35.6New Hampshire Journal603 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year, location or ownership was stated on the pages read.
  • No fieldwork or panel vendor was named; its services page says it builds its own online, landline and voter-list samples.
  • The sample release in our files is an Adobe Acrobat sharing link and was not read.
  • No candidate or party clients are named on its website.