Robert Blizzard is the founder and CEO of UpONE Insights, one of the top Republican pollsters in the country, and a trusted research partner to public affairs teams and corporate clients. His political experience includes polling for presidential campaigns, major U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races across the country, party committees and Super PACs, dozens of Republicans in Congress, and state legislative caucuses across America.

In addition to his political work, Blizzard regularly conducts corporate image, messaging, and crisis management research for national and state associations, public affairs groups, and Fortune 500 companies. Over the last two years, his research has given clients a clearer understanding of their audiences, sharpened their messaging, and prepared them for a shifting political landscape on issues including AI and data centers, energy, childcare, education, health care, trade, housing, and affordability. His work also covers criminal justice, consumer and customer strategy, finance, retail, and tech.

In 2026, Blizzard polled for Andy Barr’s (KY) U.S. Senate campaign, which came from behind to win a multi-candidate GOP primary despite being outspent by millions of dollars. Barr went on to win the general election by double digits, a rare bright spot for Republicans nationally. Blizzard also polled for House Republicans Troy Balderson (OH-12) and Claudia Tenney (NY-24), and for Kentucky Republicans as they held their majorities in both the State Senate and State House.

In 2024, Blizzard polled for America PAC in support of Donald Trump’s re-election and the GOP’s successful push to win back the U.S. Senate Majority. He also worked with several GOP incumbents whose re-election victories preserved the Republican House Majority. Over the years, Blizzard has played a key role in electing U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (TN), Tom Cotton (AR), Joni Ernst (IA), Cory Gardner (CO), Chuck Grassley (IA), Roger Marshall (KS), Mitch McConnell (KY), and Marco Rubio (FL) through campaigns and Super PACs. He has also worked for Republican state legislative caucuses in Alabama, Connecticut, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Oregon.

Before founding UpONE Insights, Blizzard spent nearly two decades at Public Opinion Strategies, where he worked his way up from intern to co-owner and top political pollster. A graduate of Clemson University, he lives in the Washington, DC area with his wife and two sons.

Jamie Wadovick Gentle is Vice President at UpONE Insights. 

Before working at UpONE, Jamie spent almost five years at Public Opinion Strategies working on both political and public affairs research. At Public Opinion Strategies, Jamie managed the polling efforts for U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, U.S. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, and Michigan House and Senate Republicans as well as several other GOP officeholders and SuperPAC groups.  Further, Jamie was also the lead project director on the COVID-19 research campaign in Ohio and advised business leaders, the Ohio Department of Health, and the DeWine-Husted Administration.

To date, working on both political and public affairs campaigns, Jamie has completed over 350 projects, from in-person focus groups to online ad testing, and over 150 public affairs-oriented projects.  Some of the projects Jamie leads are on behalf of clients such as Amazon, Google, the Walton Family Foundation, Arnold Ventures, and political clients such as U.S. Congressman Andy Barr, U.S. Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, Kentucky Senate Republicans, and other GOP officeholders and SuperPAC groups.

Jamie is a RIVA trained focus group moderator and has been at the forefront of new methods in qualitative research, leading the analysis of qualitative research projects across the country and especially among the key audiences of suburban voters and GOP primary voters.  

Prior to her work in political and public affairs polling, Jamie worked at The Advisory Board Company, a health care research company, which specialized in advising some of the largest hospital systems in the nation.  Jamie earned her BA in Biology from Rollins College, where she was a member of the women’s lacrosse team.  She currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband Michael and their two children.

Jackson Ellis is an Associate at UpONE Insights. Prior to joining UpONE Insights, Jackson Ellis was with Public Opinion Strategies for over three years where he held positions ranging from Junior Research Analyst to Director of Special Projects.

While at UpONE Insights, Jackson has worked on projects for clients that include the Walton Family Foundation, Amazon, and Google. During the 2024 election, he conducted surveys in the swing state of Michigan on behalf of America PAC and the swing districts of Oregon CD-4, Michigan CD-8, and Connecticut CD-5 in addition to others. 

At Public Opinion Strategies, Jackson facilitated the completion of over 200 research projects covering both public affairs and political clients, including research on opinions on public education for TN SCORE and Ohio Excels, COVID-19 research for the Ohio Department of Health, annual research for the American Trucking Association, and political polling for GOP Senators and Congressmen, as well as the Kentucky House and Senate Republican campaign committees. Additionally, Jackson helped analyze a 23 weeklong online focus group of suburban swing voters leading up to the 2020 election on behalf of N2 America. 

Jackson attended Washington and Lee University where he double majored in German and Global Politics. During college, Jackson interned with UniExperts GmbH, a consulting firm in Cologne, Germany with support from the German-American Chamber of Commerce. After graduation, Jackson earned a Fulbright Award and taught English in the town of Oschatz, Germany. 

Jackson is originally from Richmond, Virginia and now resides in Washington D.C. He is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Global Communications with a concentration in U.S. Foreign Policy from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.