Pollster · Commercial firm

Wick

Research draft
Polls since 2024
6
Latest poll ended
October 23, 2026
Record vs. results, relative
R+2.2

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.

Wick describes itself on its website as a voter and audience intelligence company that fields original research, sources consumer, voter and business data, and is launching a subscription that lets AI tools query its voter research.1,2 Its site names David Burrell as a co-founder and its lead pollster, and his account of the company's history ties its origin to polling work begun in August 2020.3,4 Its recent public polls, such as a June 2026 Georgia survey of 1,175 likely voters and a June 2026 Maine survey, were conducted by text-to-web.5,6

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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.

News partners

  • 2WAY (2025-05–now). 2WAY presented the first edition of The People's Poll from Wick and 2WAY in May 2025, with questions from its audience, and Wick says its June 2026 Maine Senate survey of 1,008 likely voters was conducted on behalf of 2WAY and presented by Burrell with 2WAY editor Mark Halperin.3,6,7

Polls regularly for

  • League of American Workers (2026–now). Steve Cortes, president of the League of American Workers, published on October 28, 2026 a Wisconsin poll of 1,213 likely voters that he called his newest poll for the League and that names Wick Research as the pollster.8

Founded by

  • David Burrell. Wick's June 2026 poll post and its company history name David Burrell as a co-founder.3,4

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first9. A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
SponsorPollsBetweenFlagged party-aligned
League of American Workers3July 11, 2025 – October 23, 2026Republican-aligned sponsor (3)
2Way1June 14, 2026No

§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. Wick's pages read do not say whether it works for candidates or parties and name no party or campaign clients; the organizations found sponsoring its polls are a media company, 2WAY, and an advocacy group, the League of American Workers.1,3,8

Of its 6 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 3 by a Republican-aligned sponsor9.

§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 data10,11: 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
Wick152020–2022R+3.0R+2.24.4 pts1.4 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 6 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the fieldQuestionResultWithPaid for bySample
October 19–October 23, 2026Governor · 2026 WisconsinDavid Crowley 48 · Tom Tiffany 45League of American WorkersRepublican-aligned sponsor1,213 LV
June 27–June 30, 2026Governor · 2026 GeorgiaRick Jackson 43.2 · Keisha Lance Bottoms 42.71,175 LV
June 27–June 30, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 GeorgiaJon Ossoff 46.7 · Mike Collins 42.91,175 LV
June 11–June 14, 2026U.S. Senate · 2026 MaineGraham Platner 47.6 · Susan Collins 45.42Way1,008 LV
July 9–July 11, 2025Governor · 2025 VirginiaAbigail Spanberger 50.4 · Winsome Earle-Sears 40 · Donna Charles 2.2League of American WorkersRepublican-aligned sponsor1,000 LV
July 9–July 11, 2025Attorney general · 2025 VirginiaJay Jones 48 · Jason Miyares 41League of American WorkersRepublican-aligned sponsor1,000 LV

§6What we looked for and didn't find

  • No founding year, headquarters or ownership was found; its site has no about or leadership page.
  • Earlier Wick posts on The People's Poll and on a July 2025 Virginia survey with the League of American Workers now return not found, and its former Wick Insights site no longer resolves.
  • No fieldwork or sample vendor is named for its text-to-web polls.
  • This entry is a different firm from Wick Communications, which has its own pollster entry.
  • 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 Wick or David Burrell found none; no statement was found on why its 2025 People's Poll and Virginia survey posts no longer load, so their removal is not treated as a retraction.