Pollster · Commercial firm
Strategic Partners Solutions
- Polls since 2024
- 1
- Latest poll ended
- March 9, 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.
The biography of Paul Shumaker on his own website says he co-owns Strategic Partners Solutions, which it describes as an issue management firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina.1 The same page says Shumaker founded and leads Capitol Communications and has advised Republican candidates in North Carolina, including Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr.1 A Healthier United release of March 27, 2026 names Paul Shumaker and Morgan Jackson as a bipartisan team that worked together on a North Carolina poll; it does not name either firm.2
- Kind
- Commercial firm1
§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.
Owned by
- Paul Shumaker. Paul Shumaker's website says he is a co-owner of Strategic Partners Solutions.1
Published with
Names its polls have been published under, alongside other pollsters or news outlets.
- Nexus Strategies/Strategic Partners Solutions: Nexus Strategies · 1 poll listed
Who paid for its polls
| Sponsor | Polls | Between | Flagged party-aligned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthier United Fund | 1 | March 9, 2026 | No |
§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. No website for Strategic Partners Solutions was found, and the only page read that describes it, its co-owner's biography, calls it an issue management firm without saying whom it works for; the Republican campaign work that page describes is credited to Shumaker and Capitol Communications, a separate firm.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 sponsor3.
§4Its polls
| In the field | Question | Result | With | Paid for by | Sample |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 8–March 9, 2026 | U.S. Senate · 2026 North Carolina | Roy Cooper 50 · Michael Whatley 32 | Nexus Strategies | Healthier United Fund | 800 LV |
§5What we looked for and didn't find
- No website for the firm was found, so its founding year, leadership and other owners are not known.
- No standing news partner or standing non-news client was confirmed; search results credit the firm with a series of North Carolina energy polls for Conservatives for Clean Energy, but the text of the 2020 and 2023 presentations read names Paul Shumaker as project manager and does not name the firm.
- No fieldwork or panel vendor was found, and the Healthier United poll results file asks for a sign-in.
- Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.