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Schoen Cooperman Research

Research draft
Polls since 2024
3
Latest poll ended
March 5, 2026

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.

Schoen Cooperman Research describes itself as a strategic research consulting firm for political, corporate and advocacy clients, offering survey research, ad testing, analytics, focus groups, audience segmentation and message development.1,2 A 2020 Business Wire release datelined New York says Douglas Schoen founded the firm in 2007 as Schoen Consulting and that it took its current name when Carly Cooperman, who joined in 2007 and became a partner in 2016, was named chief executive.3 Its team page lists Schoen as founder and partner and Cooperman as chief executive and partner, and its clients page lists media and consumer companies, advocacy groups and ballot measure campaigns in several states.4,5

Kind
Commercial firm1,3
Founded
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§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.

Polls regularly for

  • Independence USA PAC (2018–now). Its clients page lists Independence USA PAC, and its Bloomberg case study says it did polling, messaging and ad testing in the 2018 midterms for a Bloomberg-backed super PAC that it says supported 24 Democratic House candidates.5,6
  • Everytown for Gun Safety. Its clients page lists Everytown, and a George Washington University biography of Cooperman says she was its lead pollster for Virginia's 2019 state legislative campaigns.5,7
  • Israel on Campus Coalition. Its clients page lists the Israel on Campus Coalition among its political and advocacy clients.5

Founded by

  • Douglas Schoen (2007). The 2020 release says Douglas Schoen founded the firm in 2007, and its team page lists him as founder.3,4

Led by

  • Carly Cooperman (2020–now). The 2020 release says Carly Cooperman was named chief executive, and its team page lists her in that role.3,4

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first8. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
Israel on Campus Coalition3January 13, 2025 – March 5, 2026No

§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 does not say which party it works for, and its about page says its people have worked across the political and corporate spectrum. Its team page calls Schoen a leading Democratic campaign consultant, and the candidate work its Bloomberg case study describes is for Michael Bloomberg, whose party it does not name, and for a 2018 super PAC it says backed Democratic House candidates.2,4,6

  • Michael Bloomberg. Its Bloomberg case study says the firm was lead pollster and strategist for Michael Bloomberg's three winning New York City mayoral campaigns and for his 2020 presidential campaign.6

Of its 3 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor8.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 2 federal committees reported paying Schoen Cooperman Research $267,658 for polling, surveys or research9,10,11,12. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 1 Democratic, 0 Republican, and 1 none (most PACs and super PACs report none).

The largest payers, by amount paid for polling, surveys or research. Only federal committees report to the FEC; state and local campaigns, work paid through another consultant, and polling billed as consulting are not here. Matched by the payee name on the filing: SCHOEN COOPERMAN RESEARCH LLC; SCHOEN COOPERMAN RESEARCH, LLC.
CommitteeKindParty it reportsPaid for pollingBetween
JOHN BECCIA FOR CONGRESSHouse campaignDemocratic$247,258December 31, 2025 – September 8, 2026
UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP')Super PACNone reported$20,400May 12, 2026

§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 data13,14: 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
Schoen Cooperman Research12010R+2.5R+2.22.5 pts1.5 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 3 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
March 2–March 5, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 54 · Approve 39Israel on Campus Coalition800 A
March 2–March 5, 2026Favorability · Donald TrumpUnfavorable 51 · Favorable 43Israel on Campus Coalition800 A
January 10–January 13, 2025Favorability · Donald TrumpUnfavorable 49 · Favorable 48Israel on Campus Coalition1,000 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • Its website gives no headquarters; New York is the dateline of the 2020 release.
  • The Business Wire original returned a 403 error and was read through a republished copy.
  • Its 2025 and 2026 releases for the Israel on Campus Coalition are on Google Drive behind a sign-in page and were not read, so their method and any panel vendor are not known.
  • No standing news partner and no fieldwork or panel vendor were found.
  • Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.
  • The Silver Bulletin ratings table and the VoteHub methodology pages were not read, so aggregator checks rest on searches of published text.