Questions of polling legitimacy found Joe Rogan offering a different angle on the type of people that would “sit around answering some f*ckin’ poll.”
Between the temporary disappearance of trans-loving James Talarico, investigations of alleged ballot scheming by Mary Peltola, and the red-green elephant in the room that is Abdul El-Sayed — to name a few — once steadfast confidence in an impending congressional blue tsunami has seen many downgrading predictions and hedging ahead of Election Day.
Outside of suspicions of bad actors determined to manipulate public perception, and subsequently voter turnout, with faulty figures built off selective sampling and poorly weighted models, the comedian and podcaster saw fit to fault questionable polling data on the “f*ckin’ stupid” people that actually participate.
During a conversation with comedian Francis Foster and commentator Konstantin Kisin, hosts of the “TRIGGERnometry” podcast, Rogan shifted the conversation from secular zealotry associated with the left to polling after presented figures showed far more self-identified Democrats claiming religious identity than he expected.
Emphasizing the roughly 1% that did not answer, Rogan said, “That was my take on polls, always. I was like, ‘Here’s the problem with polls: most people don’t answer polls.’ If somebody calls you up and said, ‘I’d like a few moments of your time to ask you a few questions’ — f*ck you! Anybody with a life, anybody that has, like, a family and stuff to do, hobbies they enjoy, friends they want to hang out with, they don’t sit around answering some f*ckin’ poll.”
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Joe Rogan: “That was my take on polls, always. I was like, ‘Here’s the problem with polls: most people don’t answer polls.’ If somebody calls you up and says, ‘I’d like a few moments of your time to ask you a few questions’ — f*ck you! Anybody with a life, anybody that has like a family and stuff to do, hobbies they enjoy, friends they want to hang out with, they don’t sit around answering some f*ckin’ poll. So you’re literally getting the opinion of people so f*ckin’ stupid they answer polls.”
Polls don’t matter; only voting. GET OUT AND VOTE RED UP AND DOWN THE BALLOT!
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) November 1, 2026
“So you’re literally getting the opinion [of] people so f*ckin’ stupid they answer polls,” determined the host.
In addition to questions about who is participating in polls, weeks before the midterm election, while early voting was underway in many states, Wedgewood Polls admitted that it was a fake polling firm after its published data was used to impact averages published by the likes of Nate Silver and The New York Times.
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
Sunday, President Donald Trump raised the issue during a rally in Dubuque, Iowa, where he said, “it was totally fake.”
“They didn’t do polling; they just put numbers down, and they give to The New York Times numbers, primarily. But it was a fake poll,” contended the president. “And they admitted — I don’t know why they admitted — it must be under trouble, probably they made a deal … it was a fake, people respected it, and then they announced that they’re not real polls. They just gave out numbers.”
Trump: Wedgewood. It was a fake poll. The New York Times should be prosecuted for that. https://t.co/nIOGOnz1D9
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 1, 2026
“That’s true with a lot of pollsters, I think,” added Trump, “but this one admitted it, and I’ve never seen anything like that … this one, something happened that they felt they had to release that all of the polls that they put out over the last pretty long period of time, went to The New York Times, they were made up, fake. It’s a terrible thing.”
The president added his view that the Times “should be prosecuted,” alleging the newspaper was aware of the faked figures.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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