Here’s why I don’t trust the polls, besides my decades of experience watching politics. It’s because when a weird phone number comes up on my phone, even one that doesn’t say “Spam Risk,” I give it some major side-eye. Now, I usually have to answer unknown numbers without a spam risk alert because I get lots of calls from people not already in my contact list — the booker for Geebo and the Boner’s Morning Zoo on KDUM radio in Bumtouch, Idaho, and that sort of thing. After all, that’s my business. And I always answer with a grunt because I don’t want AI taking my voice and using it to tell Irina that I’m trapped in Nigeria and she has to send $700 to get me freed from captivity. But if there’s a slight pause, or I hear a lot of voices in the background from the boiler room in Bangladesh, I hang up. Yet, occasionally, a normal voice comes on, and if they say, “I’m from Something Something Polling,” I am out of there.

I don’t know about you, but if you’re statistically like every single one of my conservative friends, you never ever ever ever talk to pollsters.

That’s my personal poll of my friends and acquaintances, a poll with one single question: “Do you ever answer polls?” and the answer is invariably “No,” “Nope,” or “Are you kidding?”

Conservatives just don’t like any of the institutions that have screwed us over the years, and we respond with reasonable hostility. For example, I get calls from the regime media every once in a while asking for a comment, and I tell them flat out, “I don’t talk to the regime media.” I did that to the New York Times not long ago, and up-talking Wellesley grad reportrix on the other end of the line got big mad. Oh well. It just goes to show that we’re done with institutions. They hate us. Hollywood. The media. The pollsters. And we hate them back.

If you look at the pollsters for this November, and if you believe them, things look fairly dire for the GOP and, therefore, America. But if you dig a little deeper, you see a lot of the big-picture polls show that blue areas are really, really, really running up the score for the Democrats, while red areas are much closer but are still red. And some of the results are just flat-out insane. The idea that James Talarico has the lead in Texas doesn’t work for me. I’m going to be in Texas soon in the run-up to the election, and it’s entirely possible that I’ve........

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