Texas Southern University Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center

§1About

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

The Barbara Jordan Public Policy Research and Survey Center is a unit of Texas Southern University whose website says it offers policy research, survey research and data analysis for government agencies and organizations, along with survey research training for students.¹ Its team page names Michael O. Adams, a professor of political science, as director and founding director, and Mark P. Jones, who is also a fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute, as senior research fellow.² Its 2025 and 2026 election reports, written by Adams and Jones under the Executive Master of Public Administration Program of TSU's Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, say registered voters were contacted by text message and directed to an online survey in English or Spanish.^3,4,5

Kind

Academic¹

§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.

Who paid for its polls

§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. The center's website does not say whether it works for candidates or parties; its About page names government agencies, institutions and organizations as users of its research.¹

Of its 16 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁸.

§4How its numbers compare with other polls

Why this matters: A firm whose polls run steadily to one side of everyone else's is worth reading alongside others.

Each of its polls since the 2024 election is compared with other pollsters' polls of the same question whose field period ended within 14 days, each other pollster counted once⁸. The figure is the average gap, with a 95% margin. This compares it with other polls, not with the truth: the others can be the ones that are off.

Party margin

R+1.6 (±0.8) across 6 polls of the generic ballot and 2026 races, in 2 contests.

D+ means its polls showed Democrats doing better than other polls did; R+, Republicans. A figure from fewer than 5 polls isn't shown.

§52026 record against the count

Why this matters: How close this pollster's last 2026 polls came to how people voted, measured the way FiveThirtyEight measured earlier elections.

3 polls of 3 races between a Democrat and a Republican, with field periods ending in the 21 days before November 3, 2026, compared with each race's count. Some of those races are still being counted, so these figures use the unofficial count and will change until states certify.

Average miss

R+12.6

Relative to other polls of the same races

R+0.5

Typical size of miss

12.6 pts

Error is the poll's D−R margin minus the count's, as shares of all votes in the race; D+ means it showed Democrats doing better than they did. From fewer than 5 polls, so read it as a few data points, not a pattern.

§6Its polls

§7What we looked for and didn't find

• No founding year was found.
• The sponsor names seen on its polls (El País, Puente News Collaborative, San Antonio Express-News) could not be confirmed: the August 2026 statewide and South Texas reports read name no sponsor, so no news partners are listed.
• No fieldwork vendor is named for its text-to-web surveys.
• The center's website is served from a Squarespace address, and no tsu.edu page describing the center was found (a TSU news release returned not found).
• Searches found no AAPOR statement, court ruling or filing, regulator action, aggregator statement about excluding or reweighting its polls, or retraction by the center.