Remember the “red tsunami”? If you’re like me, you don’t answer the phone if you don’t recognize the number or, lately, the spoofed names. Which begs the question: Who does? People willing to speak with pollsters, I’d wager. Pollsters themselves will explain how they control for this bias, to be sure, but polling itself seems more and more a sucker’s game. Remember predictions last fall of a “red tsunami”? Chris Hayes made that point on Wednesday that the only polls that really matter are the ones voters participate in when they vote. Last night, people voted in elections in two different states. “Those results tell us way more about the state of our democracy and the political strength of the pro-democracy forces in this country than all of today’s other political headlines put together,” says @chrislhayes. pic.twitter.com/SVUPFJ3q1L — All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) September 21, 2023 What special elections around the country tell us is that the GOP is in a hole. And they’re still digging. Guy at Trump’s speech yesterday is complaining that socialist policies of Democrats are ruining America. He says he just had to buy a new truck because he hit a deer, but thank God his medical expenses are being paid by the government and he also has his VA benefits. pic.twitter.com/mfn5gW74NX — Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 21, 2023 What people tell themselves, telephone polls, or guys with microphones are a crude measure of the kind of country most Americans really want to live in.…