538's refreshed pollster ratings

Ratings of the economy, but not of Joe Biden, go up. Plus: Haley's tough path forward, Biden's New Hampshire performance, and why Republican parents raise Democratic daughters

No. 301 | January 26, 2024

📊  Public Opinion

G. Elliott Morris: What are the best pollsters in America? (538)

• Author’s note: Echelon Insights retains its top ranking — #27 out of 539 — and is #3 in the nation among partisan/campaign polling firms.

“With former President Donald Trump’s recent Republican presidential primary victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, we can now say with near certainty that the 2024 general election will feature a rematch between President Joe Biden and his predecessor. Both the stakes of the election and the odds of the outcome are of great importance, and people will be paying them a lot of attention over the next 10 months. And if social media conversations and news coverage about the primary are any indication, public opinion polls will feature very heavily in the discourse about the general election.

In fact, we are due, by my estimation, to be inundated with around 1,500 polls of elections for president, senator, governor and the U.S. House by November. For …