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Spry Strategies

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 1
Latest poll ended: October 16, 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.

Spry Strategies is a polling and voter contact firm in Knoxville, Tennessee; its homepage names Ryan Burrell as president and says he started the firm in January 2018 after beginning in political polling in 2006.¹ Its homepage says Burrell earlier worked at Washington Political Group, which it describes as a Republican consulting firm.¹ Its homepage and services page describe hybrid polling that mixes landline, mobile, text and online interviews, alongside live calling, text messaging and consulting for businesses, governments, campaigns, political action committees, advocacy groups and nonprofits.^1,2 Its October 2026 Tennessee survey of 635 likely voters, conducted by text-to-web from October 10 to 16, names no sponsor.³

Kind: Commercial firm^1,2
Founded: 2018¹

§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 jointly with

Wick. Its homepage says a partnership with Wick lets it offer better cost, speed and service in its research technology and data work.¹

Founded by

Ryan Burrell (2018). Its homepage says Ryan Burrell started the firm in January 2018.¹

Led by

Ryan Burrell. Its homepage names Ryan Burrell as president of Spry Strategies.¹

§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. Based on the clients it names: the clients on its homepage are the Tennessee House Republican Caucus, Republicans Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna and Ron DeSantis, and Great America PAC, and it says that in 2024 it partnered with conservative organizations including MAGA Inc. and American Majority; it names no Democratic clients and does not describe itself as working for one party.^1,2

Tim Burchett. Its homepage shows Tim Burchett among its client logos.¹
Anna Paulina Luna. Its homepage shows Anna Paulina Luna among its client logos.¹
Ron DeSantis. Its homepage shows Ron DeSantis among its client logos.¹
Tennessee House Republican Caucus. Its homepage shows the Tennessee House Republican Caucus among its client logos and carries a testimonial from the caucus.¹

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 sponsor⁴.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 3 federal committees reported paying Spry Strategies $50,400 for polling, surveys or research^5,6,7,8. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 2 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: SPRY STRATEGIES; SPRY STRATEGIES INC..
Committee	Kind	Party it reports	Paid for polling	Between
ENLIGHT TENNESSEE	PAC	None reported	$22,800	February 6, 2023 – July 21, 2023
ANNA PAULINA LUNA FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$15,800	November 4, 2024
CORY MILLS FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$11,800	October 7, 2024

§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^9,10: 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 as	Polls	Elections	Average miss	Relative to other polls	Typical size of miss	538's last rating
Spry Strategies	2	2020	R+4.2	R+7.9	4.2 pts	1.5 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 field	Question	Result	Sample
October 10–October 16, 2026	Governor · 2026 Tennessee	Marsha Blackburn 44 · Jerri Green 32 · David Hatley 12 · Lauren Pinkston 1	635 LV
June 6–June 9, 2023	Job approval · Congress	Disapprove 59.4 · Approve 21.7	1,250 RV
June 6–June 9, 2023	Job approval · Supreme Court	Disapprove 51 · Approve 30.2	1,250 RV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

No standing news partner or standing non-news client was found.
Its services page says it works with research companies for online panels and calling without naming them; no fieldwork vendor other than Wick was found.
No ownership information beyond Burrell's role was found.
A findings search found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action or retraction concerning the firm; aggregator statements were left to the separate sweep and not searched here.