They get paid in rubles and crypto.

why do people still listen to him?

he was right like once and he continues to ride that wave.

anyone paying the least amount of attention knows this.

Duh. He's a "closeted" republiCON probably Jackass. Ooooh! Just looked him up. Also, he's a wealthy scion. Never had to sweat out an 8 hr. day. Born on 3rd base and halfway home. He def. has a dog in the fight. His family's generational wealth. Again

Polls that show close races generate more advertising $. And pollsters fudging numbers to make races look close get more polls sponsored by the M$M.

So what incentive is there for poll accuracy?

For the NJ gubernatorial race, the "early" polling was showing Mikie Sherrill running something like 10% ahead of Jack Ciattarelli. But then as we got closer to the election, the old "trick up the sleeve" was unleashed with the declaration of "But the polls are narrowing now" and "the race is tightening"... It was to the point where some polling outfits had her and him at an almost statistical tie a few days before the election.

The actuals? She beat him by 13%.

With all the elections this past Tuesday, I was duly shocked that the race calls came so quickly after the polls closed because the pollsters were pushing the same narratives of "these races are close" (for many of them), meaning contested results, and a probable long wait for a final "call".

might inspire some voters who might not bother to vote if the lead were thought to be huge to turn out and vote.

the main reason why people came out is because a broader swath of people have finally been DIRECTLY IMPACTED by what has been going on.

Billions were spent on blasting out "warnings" of this potential during last year's campaign season and that was ignored.

NOW people are actually feeling the effects that were listed in those warnings - including the "broken promises" of a better economy, etc.

Instead they were treated to ethnic cleansing, book banning, violent round-ups and mass deportations (including of U.S. citizens), censorship, mass firings of civil servants (and corresponding "non-civil servants - i.e., "contractors" who WERE WORKERS for the federal government and represent TWICE as many in numbers as actual civil servants), and HIGHER prices due to tariffs.

I just offered the close polling margin as a past, present, and future hypothetical.

and more eyeballs.

Close race = more viewers/readers

But also, risk aversion probably plays some sort of role here. If the consensus has Jones in a small lead over Smith, but Tom's Polling Consortium (TPC) has Jones in a big lead, TPC can end up with egg on their face if Jones doesn't win, so they put a new poll in the field, re-jiggered to favor Smith (say by a little push-polling in the question wording, over-sampling Smith-friendly groups, include/exclude cell phones, whatever other tricks they've got up their sleeve). Even if the results still come back in Jones' favor, maybe the gap is smaller, so they can say the race is tightening, and now they have their posterior covered if the election comes out in Smith's favor.

Bite you in the ass much Silver ?

A few things, first the 2016, 2020 and 2024 election results show that when Trump's name is on the ballot, it does pull out "unlikely" voters. And they vote for Rs down ballot. Those who are first time or very sporadic voters. They disappear when Trump's name isn't on the ballot. The US Senate runoff election in GA in 2017, just weeks after Trump was elected president first showed that phenomenon.

Second, we know R pollsters with methodologies that gave biased samples produced many polls with results that were unrealistically close. This rash of polls had the effect of skewing the poll-averaging sites like RCP and of those using poll-averages. The end result is a narrative that specific races are closer than they
actually are.

Last, this is not rocket science to figure out.