Most Voters Don’t Trust Polls a Lot
As the presidential election season enters its final ten weeks, many voters are skeptical of whether public polling accurately reflects the state of the campaign.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 11% of Likely U.S. Voters have a lot of trust in polls of the presidential election race, while 46% have some trust in the polls. However, 31% say they have not much trust in the presidential polls and 10% trust them not at all. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,132 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on August 20-22, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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