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Zenith Research

Research draft

Polls since 2024: 7
Latest poll ended: August 3, 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.

Zenith Research describes itself on its website as a polling and opinion research firm doing political and market research for officeholders, candidates, PACs, advocacy groups, think tanks, companies and nonprofits.¹ Its website names Adam Carlson as founding partner and says he has more than 12 years of polling and market research experience.¹ It lists corporate clients such as Apple, Nike and Morgan Stanley and says it conducts research with complete independence and does not answer to party leaders or interest groups.¹

Kind: Works for one party¹

§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.

Founded by

Adam Carlson. Its website names Adam Carlson as founding partner.¹

Led by

Adam Carlson. Adam Carlson is the only person its website names, as founding partner.¹

Who paid for its polls

Sponsors named on its polls, most polls first². A party-aligned flag is VoteHub's, per poll.
Sponsor	Polls	Between	Flagged party-aligned
Common Defense	3	June 14, 2026	Democratic-aligned sponsor (3)
More Perfect Union	2	October 10, 2025	No
Blended Public Affairs	1	August 3, 2026	Democratic-aligned sponsor (1)
Perry Jacobson	1	August 3, 2026	Democratic-aligned sponsor (1)

§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 Democratic candidates or groups. Its website says its previous political clients include Democratic candidates for governor, U.S. Senate, U.S. House, state legislature and mayor, as well as national PACs, Democratic Party committees, unions and advocacy groups, and it names no Republican clients; it also says it does not answer to party leaders. This rests on the clients it describes.¹

Of its 7 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 4 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor².

Federal campaigns and committees that paid it

From 2023 through 2026, 3 federal committees reported paying Zenith Research $51,200 for polling, surveys or research^3,4,5,6. By the party each committee reports to the FEC: 1 Democratic, 0 Republican, 1 another party, and 1 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: ZENITH RESEARCH; ZENITH RESEARCH GROUP, INC..
Committee	Kind	Party it reports	Paid for polling	Between
FIGHTING FOR MICHIGAN PAC	Super PAC	None reported	$32,000	August 11, 2026
AHLMAN FOR NEBRASKA	House campaign	Other party	$18,000	May 22, 2026 – June 1, 2026
ELKIND FOR NEW YORK	House campaign	Democratic	$1,200	September 3, 2025

§4Its polls

The 7 polls of its we list, newest first.
In the field	Question	Result	Paid for by	Sample
July 27–August 3, 2026	Governor · 2026 Maryland	Wes Moore 58 · Dan Cox 31	Perry Jacobson, Blended Public AffairsDemocratic-aligned sponsor	800 LV
June 11–June 14, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Michigan	Abdul El-Sayed 45 · Mike Rogers 42	Common DefenseDemocratic-aligned sponsor	602 LV
June 11–June 14, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Michigan	Mallory McMorrow 44 · Mike Rogers 42	Common DefenseDemocratic-aligned sponsor	602 LV
June 11–June 14, 2026	U.S. Senate · 2026 Michigan	Haley Stevens 43 · Mike Rogers 42	Common DefenseDemocratic-aligned sponsor	602 LV
May 8–May 11, 2026	U.S. House · 2026 NE-01	Mike Flood 45 · Chris Backemeyer 38		371 LV
October 7–October 10, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Susan Collins 38 · Graham Platner 38	More Perfect Union	501 LV
October 7–October 10, 2025	U.S. Senate · 2026 Maine	Janet Mills 42 · Susan Collins 37	More Perfect Union	501 LV

§5What we looked for and didn't find

No founding year, office location or ownership was found; the website names only Adam Carlson.
The website describes its political clients by type and names none, so no campaign or party client is recorded.
Sponsors in our data (More Perfect Union, Common Defense, Blended Public Affairs and Perry Jacobson) were not traced to standing relationships.
No news outlet partner or fieldwork vendor was named on its website.
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 Zenith Research or Adam Carlson found none.