Change Research

{{short description|American polling firm}}

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| leader_name = Mike Greenfield

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| leader_name3 = Kris M. Balderston

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Change Research is a polling firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.changeresearch.com/about-us |access-date=2020-06-17 |website=Change Research |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Martin |date=2019-12-13 |title=New poll finds Sanders surging to within 7 points of Biden in South Carolina |language=en |work=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/474444-poll-finds-biden-with-seven-point-lead-on-sanders |access-date=2020-06-17 |quote=...Change Research, a left-leaning pollster...}} It was first incorporated as a public benefit corporation in July 2017 by Mike Greenfield, a former data scientist at PayPal and LinkedIn, and Pat Reilly, a former Democratic Party campaign operative. Unlike many other pollsters, Change Research conducts all of its polls online.{{Cite web |title=Origin Story & Bio |url=https://www.changeresearch.com/our-story |access-date=2020-06-17 |website=Change Research |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Seth A. |date=2018-09-07 |title=Poll from liberal think tank shows close race between Sherrod Brown and Jim Renacci |language=en |work=Cleveland.com |url=https://www.cleveland.com/open/2018/09/poll_from_liberal_think_tank_s.html |access-date=2020-06-17}} It claims to offer accurate and inexpensive online polling. Its clients have included Democratic political candidates such as Lauren Underwood, who won a race in Illinois's 14th congressional district in 2018, and Dan Osborn, the independent politician from Nebraska as well as organizations such as the NAACP and AFL–CIO.{{Cite news |last=Andy Metzger |date=2019-08-29 |title=Kennedy holds 17-point lead over Markey in poll |language=en-US |work=CommonWealth |url=https://commonwealthmagazine.org/politics/kennedy-holds-17-point-lead-over-markey-in-poll/ |access-date=2020-06-17}}{{Cite news |last=Bowman |first=Bridget |date=2019-04-02 |title=Pollsters prep for more 'whack-a-mole' with 2016 in rearview |language=en |work=Roll Call |url=https://www.rollcall.com/2019/04/02/pollsters-prep-for-more-whack-a-mole-with-2016-in-rearview/ |access-date=2020-06-17}}{{Cite web |last=Star |first=Lincoln Journal |date=2025-04-10 |title=Daily Minute: Osborn-Ricketts polling; pollen season worsening; tariff impacts on wine |url=https://journalstar.com/exclusive/daily-minute/article_c803e1f6-eb4a-4b53-8156-9efccfba66f1.html |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=JournalStar.com |language=en}} In 2021, FiveThirtyEight ranked Change Research a "B−" for its historical accuracy and polling methodology and noted that it called 75% of races correctly.{{Cite web|last=Silver|first=Nate|date=2021-03-25|title=Pollster Ratings - Change Research|url=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005201227/http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/pollster-ratings/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2014|access-date=2021-07-21|website=FiveThirtyEight|language=en}}