DC people PSA: the State Fair exhibit at the Renwick is excellent. They've got a life-size butter cow! (Among many other very cool, very creative things).

E Pluribus Unsure - the latest Due Data looks at recent polling around America's 250th, and it reads less like a birthday card and more like a mid-life inventory: pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

E Pluribus Unsure

Nearly thirty polls. America turns 250 — proud, uneasy, and still working out who "we" are.

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80 years! Incredible.

Kathleen Weldon@kathleenweldon.bsky.social · 4w ago

And what was that first DC poll about? What do you think? I can't believe here we are 80 years later

This morning @pollvault.bsky.social found a rare but well done survey that really raises the stakes on consumer confidence: The Meat Demand Monitor www.oklahomafarmreport.com/2026/07/08/d... (cc: @aedwardslevy.bsky.social )

Pride and Precision - this week's Due Data looks at a dozen-plus surveys on where America actually stands on LGBTQ rights. You may have seen some bad Gallup numbers on same-sex marriage, but there are a couple issues with how they do it... pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

Pride and Precision

A dozen-plus surveys on where America actually stands on LGBTQ rights.

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This week's Due Data polling newsletter builds off the Trump China summit last week by looking at recent China polling: "Frenemy of the State " - 10 Polls that point to a Long March for Trump. pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

Frenemy of the State

*10 polls. Trump's Long March.*

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Just a bonkers stat from @dkthomp.bsky.social trends essay: Share of 12th graders who “ever go on dates” declined by 47% since the 1980s; the share who “visit friends weekly” has declined 22%; and the share who “go to monthly parties” is down 40% www.derekthompson.org/p/the-6-mega...

The Six Megatrends That Define 2026

Every week, I save dozens of screenshots of charts, essay passages, science and economics papers, and tweets.

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Best AI piece I've read recently: "The way we use [AI] matters more than whether we use [it]." Tool use: you know what the answer should look like, and the AI helps you get there faster. Cognitive outsourcing: you don't, and you ship whatever it gives you. ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

This NYT op-ed on our electricity use and the grid has some extremely compelling and well done visualizations. Worth your time (gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Check out how Andy's Pizza, a local DC shop, is using AI - there just isn't enough conversation around what AI can do for small businesses like Andy's, so this is really worth a read: www.axios.com/local/washin...

Your slice at Andy's Pizza is powered by AI

The fast-growing D.C. chain has built its own AI-powered operating system — while trying to preserve the human feel of a neighborhood slice shop.

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Yesterday's Due Data looked at 9 polls on motherhood, family, and the work of raising kids in 2026. The mothers doing the work are running on empty, and the policies they say would help are popular but not urgent enough to pass. pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

The Mom Squeeze

9 polls on motherhood, family, and the work of raising kids in 2026.

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Poll Vault runs a team of AI agents every morning. Not one model with a prompt — a pipeline of specialized agents, each with a specific job. Here's what they do:

New Due Data: a love letter to polling B-sides. Nine specialized-population polls from one week — the surveys that score 5–6 on our relevance scale. Too niche for cable, too useful to skip. A tour 🧵

The Economist built an interactive model that estimates UK party-vote probabilities across 275,000 demographic combinations. A masterclass in making a cross-tab model legible: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Can you build a British voter?

See how the electorate is changing

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This is an excellent and highly insightful data-driven look into how fatherhood has changed in the last two decades, aligning well with my own personal experience, and it's got brilliant charts as well: www.derekthompson.org/p/why-do-ric...

How American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were

Compared to their parents, Millennial fathers have roughly tripled the amount of time they spend with kids. The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life.

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Poll Vault's AI agents ran this morning and found 23 new polls across 10 topics, including: - a TX poll w/Talarico ahead + 10pp jump in voters rating the economy as worse than a year ago (46% Feb > 56% now) - a Ragnar Research poll with Trump underwater in districts he won in 2024 pollvault.ai

Poll Vault | AI-Powered Polling Data Tracking

Track public polling data from dozens of sources, updated daily. AI-generated summaries, email digests, and briefing memos.

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Synthetic respondents are like teen sex: everyone's talking about it but nobody's doing it, and anyone that is actually doing it, is probably doing it (very) badly.

The feature I use most in my own product: the daily email digest. Every morning at 7am, new polls on my topics land in my inbox. Headline, key findings, source link. Takes 3 minutes to know what dropped overnight. I used to spend 45 minutes on that same scan and still miss things. pollvault.ai

Poll Vault | AI-Powered Polling Data Tracking

Track public polling data from dozens of sources, updated daily. AI-generated summaries, email digests, and briefing memos.

pollvault.ai

Had it in my calendar to post about Due Data tday, but this incredibly kind post from Kevin serves as a much better alternative - thank you!

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a lot of polling newsletters out there (and I think I subscribe to most of them), but "Due Data" from GOP pollster @alexlundry.bsky.social is one of the few that's actually worth your time. Very thoughtful deep dives pollvault.ai/newsletters/...

Sure there's polling on Iran, Medicare and Trump approval, but you really go to Poll Vault for the Arbor Day polls, right? 😂

Today's daily digest from Poll Vault, 9 new polls across 7 tracked topics, including a lot of new lows for Trump job approval:

The beauty of multimedia online polling is that you can do stuff like this:

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 4mo ago

Economist/YouGov Apr 17-20 % of U.S. adult citizens who say of an AI image Trump posted to social media — then deleted — showing him in robes, laying a glowing hand on a sick man, I... Like it 11% Dislike it, but don't think it's important 23% Hate it 48% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

Here’s some context for these new numbers generated from PollVault.AI

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 4mo ago

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

Pace of change in AI is insane - a panelist at the Miami Tech Summit: “what AI has gotten really good at in the last two weeks…”

In a few hours I'm on a panel at Miami Tech Summit called "Will democracy still be human as artificial intelligence rewires campaigns and our government?" Normally panel prep = an hour of Googling and half-remembered polls. This morning I tried something different. 🧵

Here's what Poll Vault has to say about today's redistricting vote in Virginia:

Poll Vault's AI agents ran this morning at 6am ET. Today they found: - 18 new polls across 10 topics - NBC News Poll on Trump & Iraq, Immigration - Not 1, but 3 (!) different polls on the CA Gov primary This happens every day, automatically. pollvault.ai

Poll Vault | AI-Powered Polling Data Tracking

Track public polling data from dozens of sources, updated daily. AI-generated summaries, email digests, and briefing memos.

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I built a SaaS product powered by AI agents that tracks public polling data. It's called Poll Vault and it's now in beta. Every morning a pipeline of agents search dozens of sources, reads the content, analyzes it, and delivers you new polls — organized by topic, scored by relevance. pollvault.ai

Poll Vault | AI-Powered Polling Data Tracking

Track public polling data from dozens of sources, updated daily. AI-generated summaries, email digests, and briefing memos.

pollvault.ai

Who said AI can't do great things? fortune.com/2026/03/30/g...

A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track the cost of Guinness. Now pubs are lowering their prices to compete | Fortune

A 37-year-old leveraged voice AI and Anthropic’s Claude to create a consumer price index for a pint of Guinness across Ireland.

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Full survey is here! www.monmouth.edu/polling-inst...

Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Garden State Diner | Polling Institute

2-in-3 New Jerseyans visit a diner monthly; Many prefer the flashier restaurant-style establishments

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