Joe Rogan trashes polls ahead of midterms, claims only ‘stupid’ people participate

Joe Rogan slammed polls as unreliable ahead of the midterm elections, claiming that only “f****** stupid” people with no social lives bother answering them.The podcaster made the remarks during a conversation with comedian Francis Foster and political commentator Konstantin Kisin released on Saturday.The group was discussing a Pew Research Center survey, which Rogan used an AI platform to summarize, when Rogan fixated on “about 1%” of respondents who didn’t answer a question.“I’m in that group,” said Rogan, whose podcast ranks among the nation’s most popular. “That is the most intelligent group on Earth, the ‘about 1 percent,’ the one percent that will not answer polls.”The one percent he was referring to did in fact agree to participate in the Pew poll; they just didn’t answer a particular question.Ahead of the midterm elections, podcaster Joe Rogan claimed that only 'stupid' people without social lives answer polls (PowerfulJRE)“That was my take on polls, always,” he continued. “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*** 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****** poll.”“So you’re literally getting the opinion [of] people so f****** stupid they answer polls,” Rogan added. “If there’s an issue like 49 percent agree, that means that less than half of the people that are so f******* stupid they’re answering polls agree with you. That’s not good.”Rogan, who endorsed President Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election, made the remarks three days before Election Day, as polls point to potentially steep Republican losses amid voter frustration over the cost of living and the Iran war.Surveys suggest the GOP risks losing its majorities in both the House and the Senate.But leading polling analysts have cautioned that surveys are not infallible, acknowledging past misses and the difficulty of adequately representing some groups of voters.Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight and editor of Silver Bulletin, has noted that polls underestimated Trump’s support in the past three presidential elections. He has also stressed that pollsters recognize the problem and have worked to address it.“The critique I have of some of the people who say: Well, you’re undersampling Republicans in these polls, and Democrats are much more enthusiastic and much more likely to respond to and trust the pollsters — every single person in the industry is aware of that,” Silver told The New York Times last week. “I think every pollster is aware that polls missed low on Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024,” he added.