About

As a part of the Office of Marketing and Communications within Quinnipiac University, polls are fully funded by the university. The Quinnipiac University Poll collects data using live phone interviewers and scientific based methodology considered to be the gold standard in the industry. For further detail regarding how surveys are conducted, please see our Methodology page.

The Quinnipiac University Poll’s staff are members of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and the Poll is a charter member of AAPOR’s Transparency Initiative.

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The Quinnipiac University Poll has distinguished itself by becoming one of the most trusted names among polling organizations and is widely cited by journalists, public officials and researchers. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected the Quinnipiac University Poll website for inclusion in its historic collection of internet materials related to public policy topics. The findings of Quinnipiac University’s polls are routinely reported by news organizations that include the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Associated Press, BBC, Reuters, USA Today, NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC.

The Polling Perspective with Doug Schwartz is a podcast produced by the Quinnipiac University Poll and Quinnipiac University Podcasts. The podcast gives a behind-the-scenes look at public opinion polling and what is going on in politics today through a series of informal conversations between experts in the field. You can listen and subscribe on both Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Mission and History

The mission of the Quinnipiac University Poll is to provide timely, accurate, non-partisan, public opinion research on both the state and national levels.

Founded in 1988, the first polls were conducted in the state of Connecticut as part of a class project by the late Paul Falcigno, a marketing research professor at then Quinnipiac College. In 1994, Doug Schwartz, PhD, was named polling director and he expanded the Poll’s reach to become a dominant national and international name among polling organizations today.

To date, surveys have been conducted in more than twenty states. National polling began in 2001. Dr. Schwartz has curated a full-time staff with vast survey research, public policy, and social science experience as well as nationally recognized journalists. Dr. Schwartz started with a single computer and a dozen phones. Now up to 200 interviewing stations, staffed by student and non-student interviewers, including bilingual interviewers, are used to conduct surveys for any given poll.

Poll Findings

Results of our polls are published on our website; X, formerly known as Twitter; and Facebook. They include the specific questions asked along with information about the methodology used in our polls.