What the public thinks — and what you should do about it.
Wave designs and fields surveys, produces estimates from the national down to the county level, and advises clients on what to do with them.
Services
What we do
Benchmark research
A full survey: design, fielding, weighting, complete crosstabs, and a written memo. Made public or kept private.
Tracking
A fixed instrument fielded on a set schedule, so you spot movement in opinion when it matters.
Message testing
Experiments with real treatment arms, pre-registered analysis, and effects reported by subgroup (when sample size permits).
Geographic estimates
We can generate opinion estimates for every state, congressional district, and county in the nation — all from a single large national poll (n=5k minimum).
Strategic advisory
Ongoing counsel on message and positioning, including review of research from your other vendors.
Tracker
Get geographic estimates from national surveys
Support for a hypothetical issue, as one national estimate
How we work
What makes Wave special?
We don't mark up your data
Fieldwork is billed at cost. You pay for the instrument and the analysis.
Fast, representative polling
We use state-of-the-art sampling and interview methods to poll demographically and politically representative samples of U.S. voters and get you data fast.
New methods for estimating local opinion
Wave uses advanced statistical methods — small-area estimation techniques that have become commonplace in academic research and UK opinion polling — to turn large national samples into estimates of opinion at the state and local level.
We care about the people
Surveys are how the public gets heard between elections. We poll the people and places other surveys skip, and we report what they tell us.
Results
Survey results
Poll: Voters weighing economic costs of deportations.
65% of voters say the administration is focusing too much on deportations and not enough on the cost of living, and only 21% want the government to deport every undocumented immigrant regardless of whether they have committed a crime.
Poll: Deportations and affordability are both eroding Trump’s 2024 coalition.
68% of Americans say the administration is too focused on deportations, and 16% of its 2024 voters say they will not vote Republican in 2026.
Poll: Immigration enforcement is driving voters away from the Republican coalition.
69% of U.S. adults say the administration is focusing too much on deportations, and 35% say enforcement makes them less likely to vote Republican.
Contact
Get in touch
contact@wavepolling.comWave is led by G. Elliott Morris, author of the book “Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them” and former head of the data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight, director of data analytics at ABC News, and Senior Data Journalist at The Economist. Wave works with survey researchers, statisticians, and strategists who are experts in data science and making sure your organization has what it needs to act on our insights.