The Scott Adams School - 08/19/26 Pollster Mark Mitchell joins Erica & Marcela

Real Coffee with Scott Adams · Aug 19, 2026 · 1h 11m

It’s Wednesday, August 19th, 2026, and today we’re going **Polling for Normal People** at The Scott Adams School. 📊

Erica and Marcela welcome **Mark Mitchell**, longtime pollster and former Director of Polling at Rasmussen Reports, who recently launched **The Honest Poll**.

We have questions. Lots of questions.

**Are polls real? Are they fake? How do they actually work?** Who gets polled? How do pollsters decide who is a “likely voter”? What happens when they weight the results? And just how much mischief can be accomplished before anyone technically has to call a poll “wrong”?

And then…