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StimSight Research

Research draft
Polls since 2024
1
Latest poll ended
July 24, 2025

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§1About

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

StimSight Research (StimSight, LLC) is an opinion research and strategy firm led by Patrick Murray; Insider NJ announced its launch on April 22, 2025, describing it as offering research and strategic guidance to business, nonprofit and advocacy organizations.1,2 The launch announcement identifies Murray as the founder and former director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.1 A StimSight release published by Insider NJ in April 2026 says it won a 2026 Pollie Award from the American Association of Political Consultants for 2025 election work for the Middlesex County Democratic Organization.3 Its July 2025 New Jersey governor poll surveyed 1,108 probable voters by text-to-web and live telephone interviews.4

Kind
Commercial firm1,2
Founded
20251

§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

  • Insider NJ (2025–now). Insider NJ says it paid for a May 2025 StimSight poll of the Democratic primary for governor, and the July 2025 Insider NJ/StimSight Research general election poll names Insider NJ as sponsor.4,5

Founded by

  • Patrick Murray (2025). Insider NJ's April 2025 announcement says Patrick Murray launched StimSight Research.1

Led by

  • Patrick Murray. Its April 2026 release describes the firm as owned and directed by Patrick Murray.3

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first6. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
Insider NJ1July 24, 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.

Works for Democratic candidates or groups. Based on the clients it names: the only party or campaign client StimSight names, in its April 2026 award release, is the Middlesex County Democratic Organization; its website does not say which parties it works for, and the release says it also does non-political work.2,3

  • Middlesex County Democratic Organization (2025–now). Its April 2026 release says it did 2025 election work for the Middlesex County Democratic Organization on voter mobilization targets and messaging.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 sponsor6.

§4Its polls

The 1 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
July 18–July 24, 2025Governor · 2025 New JerseyMikie Sherrill 48 · Jack Ciattarelli 42Insider NJ1,108 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

  • Its website does not give a location or founding date; the 2025 founding year rests on the Insider NJ launch announcement.
  • No fieldwork or panel vendor is named; its releases describe text-to-web and live telephone interviews without naming who collects them.
  • No ownership information beyond Murray's role was found.
  • Searches on 2026-11-06 for AAPOR statements, court rulings or settlements, regulator actions including New Jersey election law enforcement, aggregator decisions and retractions or corrections found none naming StimSight Research or its polls, it does not appear in Silver Bulletin's ratings chart on Datawrapper, updated January 12, 2026, and a 2021 apology by Patrick Murray for a New Jersey poll concerns the Monmouth University Polling Institute and is listed under pointers.