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YOUTUBE (Newsmax) - Has The Media Failed By Reporting Polls? | Greta Wire Thu Aug 6 20:28:09 2026

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Can you trust the political polls you see in the news? After nearly 31 years of covering politics on television, Greta says she wanted to better understand how election polls are built, why respected surveys sometimes miss by wide margins and what reporters should tell viewers before repeating a headline number. Veteran political pollster John McLaughlin joins Greta to pull back the curtain on the polling industry. He explains: • Why polling is still an inexact science • The critical difference between adults, registered voters and likely voters • How sample selection, demographic weighting and question wording can shape results • Why primaries and midterm elections are especially difficult to measure • How campaigns use internal polls to allocate money, travel and advertising • How late-breaking stories can rapidly move voters • What journalists and voters should examine before trusting a survey McLaughlin also offers his perspective on several controversial polling misses and shares stories from decades of advising major political campaigns, including his work with President Donald Trump.