Flawed Pollster Stuart Elway

Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 1:38 a.m.

#079: Stuart Elway has been practicing the dark art of polling since 1975. Elway has worked for almost every major local corporation, advancing their pro-business agendas with often misleading push polls containing deceptive questions and incorrect information.

PLUS: Podcaster, writer and expert on the history of American policing Brian Platt examines a recent Elway poll about Seattle crime. "Polling is marketing. Polling exists to justify the already existing political positions of the customer who ordered the poll."