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CBS News

An organization that commissioned or published polls without conducting them itself.

Polls listed
28
Pollsters used
1

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.

§1Pollsters it has used

§2Record against results

Why this matters: The one test that doesn't depend on other polls: how close the final polls published under its name came to what voters did.

From FiveThirtyEight's final public data2,3: 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
CBS News181998–2018D+1.5D+2.03.0 ptsNot graded (inactive)
CBS News/The New York Times311998–2016R+0.5D+0.74.5 ptsNot graded (inactive)

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

§3Its polls

28 polls it paid for or published, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultPollsterPaid for bySample
September 30–October 2, 2026Generic congressional ballot · 2026Dem 54 · Rep 45YouGov1,572 LV
June 17–June 19, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 62 · Approve 38YouGov2,519 A
May 13–May 15, 2026Generic congressional ballot · 2026Dem 45 · Rep 40YouGov1,397 RV
May 13–May 15, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 63 · Approve 37YouGov2,064 A
April 8–April 10, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 61 · Approve 39YouGov2,387 A
March 17–March 20, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 60 · Approve 40YouGov3,335 A
February 25–February 27, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 41YouGov2,264 A
February 25–February 27, 2026Generic congressional ballot · 2026Dem 45 · Rep 40YouGov1,523 RV
February 20–February 23, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 60 · Approve 40YouGov2,381 A
February 20–February 23, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 60 · Approve 40YouGov2,381 A
January 14–January 16, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 41YouGov2,523 A
January 5–January 7, 2026Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 41YouGov2,325 A
December 17–December 19, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 41YouGov2,300 A
November 19–November 21, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 60 · Approve 40YouGov2,489 A
October 29–October 31, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 59 · Approve 41YouGov2,124 A
October 16–October 21, 2025proposition 50 · 2025 CaliforniaYes 62 · No 38YouGov1,504 RV
October 1–October 3, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 58 · Approve 42YouGov2,441 A
September 7–September 13, 2025Mayor · 2025 New York CityZohran Mamdani 43 · Andrew Cuomo 28 · Curtis Sliwa 15 · Eric Adams 6YouGov1,901 LV
September 3–September 5, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 56 · Approve 44YouGov2,385 A
July 16–July 18, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 58 · Approve 42YouGov2,343 A
June 4–June 6, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 55 · Approve 45YouGov2,428 A
April 23–April 25, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 55 · Approve 45YouGov2,356 A
April 8–April 11, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 53 · Approve 47YouGov2,410 A
March 24–March 26, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpApprove 50 · Disapprove 50YouGov2,351 A
February 26–February 28, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpApprove 51 · Disapprove 49YouGov2,311 A
February 5–February 7, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpApprove 53 · Disapprove 47YouGov2,175 A
September 5–September 8, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 78 · Approve 22YouGov2,335 A
February 1–February 4, 2023Job approval · CongressDisapprove 70 · Approve 30YouGov2,030 A