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Susquehanna Polling & Research

Also published as Susquehanna Polling & Research Inc..

Research draft
Polls since 2024
4
Latest poll ended
August 17, 2026
Record vs. results, relative
R+1.3

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.

Susquehanna Polling & Research is a survey research and polling firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, whose website says it was founded in 2000 and is led by president and CEO James Lee.1,2,3 Its website says it serves businesses, state agencies, media outlets and candidates for public office, runs its research in house with its own telephone agents, and acquired The Bartlett Research Group, a Harrisburg focus group company, in 2016.1,3 The Pennsylvania State Education Association lists itself as the client of a phone survey of 705 likely Pennsylvania voters that Susquehanna fielded from March 9 to 17, 2026, as part of a statewide omnibus.4

Kind
Commercial firm1,3
Founded
20001

§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.

Owns

  • The Bartlett Group (Bartlett Research) (2016–now). The about page says the firm acquired The Bartlett Research Group in 2016 and runs it as its focus group subsidiary, and names James Lee as its owner.1,3

Led by

  • James Lee. The firm's website names James Lee as president and CEO.1,2

§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. Its home, about, leadership and clients pages say it serves candidates for public office but name no campaign or party clients and do not say which party's candidates it works for.1,5

Of its 4 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 1 by a Republican-aligned sponsor6.

§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 data7,8: 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
Susquehanna Polling & Research Inc.472006–2022D+0.7R+1.35.1 pts2.3 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 4 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
August 11–August 17, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 MichiganAbdul El-Sayed 46 · Mike Rogers 39800 RV
March 18–March 29, 2026Governor · 2026 PennsylvaniaJosh Shapiro 58 · Stacy Garrity 36Republican-aligned sponsor700 LV
December 9–December 17, 2025Job approval · Donald TrumpDisapprove 56 · Approve 38— RV
September 22–September 28, 2025Governor · 2026 PennsylvaniaJosh Shapiro 54 · Stacy Garrity 36700 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • The about page gives the founding year but does not say who founded the firm or who owns it.
  • No current standing news partner was found; its clients page lists outlets that cited its polls but its client map names no clients, and older coverage of polls for ABC27 was not confirmed on its current pages.
  • The release hosted on a New York Times server could not be fetched, its posts on X were not read, and a June 2025 Commonwealth Foundation toplines file returned HTTP 403, so the sponsors of its other 2025 and 2026 polls were not confirmed.
  • No fieldwork or panel vendor is named beyond its own in-house calling.
  • Searches and AAPOR's statements page found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the firm.