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

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

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…”

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If you're at Miami Tech Summit today, come find me after the panel.

That used to be an hour of work. I'd still show up on the panel feeling like I was winging it.

This morning: under 10 minutes, structured POV, sources I trusted.

This is the workflow I wanted as a consultant for 20 years.

One framing note for your panel: the polls consistently show a gap between AI use and AI trust. Majorities are using these tools while simultaneously harboring deep concerns about their societal effects.

4. Voters Want Guardrails — and Will Reward Candidates Who Support Them

A Transparency Coalition poll finds 81% of likely voters support federal guardrails to protect consumers and children from AI harms, and 77% prefer a pro-safety candidate over one arguing regulation would cede ground to China.

3. Neither Party Owns the AI Governance Debate

NBC News polling finds just 20% of voters say Republicans handle AI better, 19% say Democrats do, and 33% say neither party would do a good job — the smallest partisan gap on any issue tested in the survey.

2. A Generational Fault Line on AI as a Civic Information Tool

Data for Progress: overall, 58% of likely voters say they are unlikely to use AI chatbots to learn about candidates or elections — but among voters under 45, that flips, with 55% saying they are likely to do so.

1. Election Misinformation Is the Consensus Concern

Marist/PBS/NPR finds 85% of Americans believe AI-generated political content is likely to spread election misinformation — and the numbers are nearly identical across party lines (81% of Republicans, 86% of Democrats, 88% of independents).

Ask Poll Vault pulled 5 recent polls across multiple pollsters and came back with a panel-ready synthesis titled:

AI & Democracy: What the Polls Show

Four findings + a framing note. Every claim cited to a specific poll I could click through and verify.

I opened my own product, Poll Vault, and typed:
"I'm on a panel tomorrow about AI and democracy. Help me prep by putting together key findings from any relevant polls on the topic."

Then I watched it work.

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. 🧵

The most current data comes from Washington Post/Schar School polling conducted through early April, which shows the YES side holding a 52%–47% lead among likely voters — a narrow margin well within the poll's error range. Among the broader registered voter universe, YES leads more comfortably at 53%–44%, suggesting some softening as the electorate is filtered down to those most likely to actually cast ballots. The picture has shifted considerably since February, when a Roanoke College poll — conducted after the new congressional map was released — showed the amendment losing 52%–44%. That earlier poll found a notably fractured Democratic coalition, with only 71% of Democrats backing the measure and 27% opposed, while independents rejected it 56%–40%. The April Washington Post data suggests the YES side has since consolidated support, but independent opinion remains a watchpoint: independents now favor the amendment by 10 points, down sharply from the 20-point margin they gave Abigail Spanberger in last year's governor's race. Turnout is likely to be the deciding factor. Republicans show considerably more urgency to vote NO — 85% are committed to opposing the measure — compared to 77% of Democrats committed to voting YES. That 8-point enthusiasm gap cuts against a YES lead that is already thin. On the other side, early voting has tracked at D+19.6 points, which may provide a structural buffer for the amendment's supporters heading into the April 21 special election. On the underlying fairness question, the Washington Post poll finds that while 57% of Virginians broadly prefer districts that reflect the state's political makeup, 48% specifically call the proposed 10 Democratic-leaning district outcome unfair — a tension that helps explain why the topline YES number remains fragile despite a Democratic-leaning state.

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

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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.

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I have! Tough to do given the variation in question wording across orgs but I’ve got a few ideas of how to deal with that for the 2.0 version.

Thank you! Let me know what you think once you've had a chance to kick the tires!

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What you get:

- Daily feed of new polls, filtered by your topics
- Email digests every morning (or weekly)
- Export to PDF, CSV, or AI-generated briefing memos
- Ask questions in plain language, get answers with citations

I built this because it was literally my job. As a political data consultant I was the person my clients expected to flag polls before they saw them.

That meant checking pollster websites, scanning social media, reading PDFs, and still missing things. So I built the tool that does it automatically.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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

My god - what a gem! Sharing this with my NJ group chat immediately.

Aptronym - Wikipedia

By the way, there is a name for this - they are called "aptonyms" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Something Big Is Happening A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

This is an EXCELLENT piece that captures much of what I'm seeing and feeling in the AI space right now. Highly recommended that you read the whole thing: shumer.dev/something-bi...

Drake Maye shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him

Thank you! One of the motivations for making this was actually for the data driven campaigns class I teach.

Ballot Blocks Guess how this neighborhood voted in 2024!

Solar panels & a boat in the driveway...is this a Harris or Trump neighborhood?

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Thank you! Glad you enjoy it!!