They directed The Seattle Times Washington Poll, and have done surveys for Knight Ridder and NBC News in California.
They conducted nationally acclaimed citizen engagement programs on government accountability and performance measurement for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire and State Auditor Brian Sonntag.
These programs include computer-aided town hall meetings and the first-of-its-kind statewide interactive survey on live television.
Differentials such as these led some Republican bloggers to discount The Elway Poll results altogether.
[2] However, in 2016, the FiveThirtyEight Pollster Ratings gave Elway Research an "A+ grade," finding its results to be biased only half a percentage point more than the mean toward Democratic candidates.