Exclusive: WSJ taps Biden, Trump pollsters for 2022

• The company has contracted two firms led by John Anzalone, the lead pollster for President Biden's 2020 presidential campaign, and Tony Fabrizio, the lead pollster for former President Trump's presidential 2016 and 2020 campaigns.
• The firms will help put together the new "The Wall Street Journal Poll."
• The quarterly poll will explore political trends and voter sentiments around key issues. The data will be deployed across all Dow Jones properties, including Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch. 

The polls will have larger sample sizes, "to add confidence to the results and be able to look at demographic groups with increased statistical reliability," Seib said.

• The company will also be expanding its existing polling partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, an independent, nonpartisan research organization, to do surveys about cultural issues.

The big picture: News companies have had to adjust polling strategies and expectations in the digital era to account for more variables that could cause uncertainty.

• "We have to keep finding ways to reach voters where they are and where they will be responsive, which has been a challenge," Seib said.