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Polling faces an existential crisis: response rates are plummeting, and trust is eroding. The Planet Money team took an idea from the economics canon and convinced the Marist Institute for Public Opinion to test it in a real-world experiment. They traveled to Marist to learn the history, science, and tricks of the trade, then got on the phone themselves. An update checks in on the experiment's progress and what it might reveal about the 2026 midterms.
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