What polls do and don’t tell us about the 2026 midterms

What polls do and don’t tell us about the 2026 midterms

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Can the polls be trusted? It depends on what you’re trusting them to do.Even the most carefully conducted polls are imprecise snapshots of public opinion, not precision instruments — and when they’re pressed into predictive tools, they don’t always get it right. But while surveys can’t provide an unambiguous

Why You Cannot Trust the Polls

Explore why 2026 election polls are unreliable and often misleading despite their error margins.