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Stratus Intelligence

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 5
Latest poll ended: November 22, 2025

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.

Stratus Intelligence describes itself on its website as an analytics and polling platform offering custom survey research, voter file enrichment, targeting and message testing for political campaigns and corporate clients.¹ Its about page names Christopher S. Wilson as chief executive, describes him as the founder of WPA Intelligence, and says two other senior staff previously worked at WPA Intelligence; Wilson's Substack profile calls him chief executive of EyesOver and Stratus Intelligence.^2,3 A November 2025 questionnaire has interviewers introduce Stratus Intelligence as a national public opinion firm, and its November 2025 Texas memo says interviews were done by text-to-web and live telephone.^4,5 According to Punchbowl News, a September 2025 Stratus survey in the Texas Republican Senate primary was an internal poll for an outside group supporting Wesley Hunt.⁶

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.

Led by

Christopher S. Wilson. Its about page names Christopher S. Wilson as chief executive of Stratus Intelligence.^2,3

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first⁷. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
Sponsor	Polls	Between	Flagged party-aligned
Standing For Texas	5	October 8, 2025 – November 22, 2025	Republican-aligned sponsor (5)

§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. Its impact page lists Republican officeholders, among them Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott and Glenn Youngkin, and Republican primaries among its work, and names no Democratic client; its about page describes its chief executive as a leader in GOP political strategy. This rests on the clients it names.^2,8

Ted Cruz. Its impact page lists Ted Cruz among the political figures it presents as clients, without dates.⁸
Glenn Youngkin. Its impact page lists Glenn Youngkin among the political figures it presents as clients, without dates.⁸

Of its 5 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 5 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁷.

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 2 federal committees reported paying Stratus Intelligence $8,500 for polling, surveys or research^9,10,11,12. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 0 Democratic, 1 Republican, 1 another party, and 0 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: STRATUS INTELLIGENCE LLC.
Committee	Kind	Party it reports	Paid for polling	Between
PROTECTING AMERICA'S FUTURE	Super PAC	Other party	$7,000	February 23, 2026
MARTY YOUNG FOR CONGRESS	House campaign	Republican	$1,500	August 14, 2025

§4Its polls

The 5 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	Paid for by	Sample
November 21–November 22, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 36 · Wesley Hunt 26 · John Cornyn 25	Standing For TexasRepublican-aligned sponsor	857 LV
November 21–November 22, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 51 · John Cornyn 34	Standing For TexasRepublican-aligned sponsor	857 LV
November 4–November 5, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 34 · John Cornyn 27 · Wesley Hunt 26	Standing For TexasRepublican-aligned sponsor	811 LV
November 4–November 5, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 46 · John Cornyn 38	Standing For TexasRepublican-aligned sponsor	811 LV
October 6–October 8, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Texas Republican	Ken Paxton 34 · John Cornyn 31 · Wesley Hunt 24	Standing For TexasRepublican-aligned sponsor	839 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

No founding year or headquarters was found; the website footer gives only a 2026 copyright.
The website links to EyesOver, but no page read explains how the two companies are related.
The impact page does not say which of the listed work was done under the Stratus name rather than by its staff at earlier firms.
VoteHub lists Standing For Texas as a sponsor of some of its polls; no page read describes that arrangement.
No news partner or fieldwork vendor was named on the pages read.
On 2026-11-06 AAPOR's statements list (five pages), FiftyPlusOne's August 2026 notice suspending pollsters and web searches for court cases, regulator actions, aggregator statements and retractions or corrections naming Stratus Intelligence found none; the only dispute found was a rival campaign's public criticism of its 2025 Oklahoma governor's race poll, which is not a finding.