Ragnar Research Partners

§1About

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

Ragnar Research Partners describes itself on its website as a political polling and corporate research firm offering surveys, focus groups, modeling and message targeting.^1,2 Its corporate page gives a headquarters address on E Street Southeast in Washington, D.C., and lists further offices in Austin, Texas; Oklahoma City and Edmond, Oklahoma; Bend, Oregon; and Tallahassee, Florida.² Its website lists Chris Perkins as a partner, and its team page names other partners and staff without giving a founding date or owners.^3,4

Kind

Works for one party^1,3

§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.

Who paid for its polls

§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.

Works for Republican candidates or groups. Its political page lists case studies for Senator John Curtis, Senator Marsha Blackburn, Governor Brian Kemp, Governor Larry Hogan, Congresswoman De La Cruz and a Texas House majority project, its Blackburn case study describes Republicans holding that seat, and its biography of partner Chris Perkins says he has polled for nearly one hundred winning Republican candidates since 2010. This rests on the clients it names; none of the pages read names a Democratic client.^1,3,6

• Marsha Blackburn (2018–now). A case study on its website describes its work in Marsha Blackburn's 2018 race for an open U.S. Senate seat in Tennessee, which it says Republicans held.⁶
• Brian Kemp. A case study on its website describes its work in Brian Kemp's race for governor of Georgia against Stacey Abrams.⁷

Of its 8 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 8 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁵.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 28 federal committees reported paying Ragnar Research Partners $2,319,275 for polling, surveys or research^8,9,10,11. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 19 Republican, and 9 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

§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 data^12,13: 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.

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

§6What we looked for and didn't find

• No founding year was found on its website.
• No ownership information was found; the website lists partners but not owners.
• Conservatives for America and Senate Leadership Fund PAC appear as sponsors on some of its polls; no standing arrangement with either was found on the pages read.
• The website names no news outlet partners and no fieldwork or panel vendors.
• Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.