Here’s Another Example of Why You Should Never Trust Political Polling
If you ever wonder if polling is accurate and sincere, join the club. People feel this way because it appears that most political polling now is totally bogus.
We saw this in the 2016 election when Hillary was expected to win, per the New York Times. They were wrong (see above).
The 2024 Des Moines Register Bogus Poll
President Trump pointed out that the Des Moines Register polling before the 2024 election was totally bogus. MSNBC’s Maddow praised a Des Moines Register poll from a couple days before the 2024 election that predicted Kamala would beat President Trump by 3 percent.
I’m going to put this video in a time capsule, open it up in 20 years, and laugh my ass off again pic.twitter.com/liPvxu1R2p
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 8, 2024
Maddow went on and on about the poll and how Kamala was going to win Iowa. She couldn’t stop talking about it.
As it turned out, the poll was way off – more than 15% off. It was trash.
President Trump won Iowa by over 13%. Trump’s lead was a cyclone across the state. Kamala was nowhere to be found.
President Trump shared that he was going to be suing the individual who put together this poll.
JUST IN: Donald Trump announces he is launching a lawsuit against pollster Ann Selzer for allegedly rigging her Iowa poll to influence the 2024 election.
Trump also announced that he would be suing 60 Minutes for editing Kamala Harris’ answers.
“In my opinion, it was fraud, and… pic.twitter.com/xq6rqdb3Ro
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 16, 2024
This year, another election and more bogus polling.
This poll was totally fake.
Absolutely incredible…
“Wedgewood Polls” just admitted they are a fake polling firm and made up their polls.
Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages. https://t.co/ceZU2NdpK5
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 21, 2026
There are better ways to identify election outcomes.
We can put together a picture of what is going on by looking at polling on other matters. For example, around 80% of voters believe that the government is weaponized. This correlates with how Americans are voting – conservatives are strongly in agreement with this position, and they vote for President Trump.