Pollsters - A suggestion
I'm sure there are websites out there that track the accuracy of pollsters. I'm too lazy to check. But I got to thinking last night about polling.
The nature of polling has undoubtedly changed over the years. For one example, who has a landline? And following on that example, who answers cell phone calls with caller ids that you don't recognize? And even if you answer the call, do you stay on the line when you realize that it's someone trying to sell you stuff you don't need. Or pollsters? I mean, who here has been polled recently? Not I.
Maybe this affects the accuracy of the polling. Maybe not. As I said, someone may track that, but I don't.
But I have an idea.
If you hang out a shingle that tells the world you are a pollster in the US, you have to register with the new government agency, the Political Pollster Tracking Agency. You don't need any particular skills, and it doesn't cost a dime, but you have to identify the kind of polling you claim to do. For example, if you are a general purpose pollster, you can poll and report on anything political you choose. If you are a RW pollster, you can only poll and report on RWNJs, to include fascists, Nazis, militias, white nationalists, Christian dominionists, etc. And so on. And you get a PPTA license.
Here's the kicker. If you're a RWNJ pollster and are found to be polling anything left of fascists, you lose your license and cannot be a pollster anymore. 
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The next kicker. You gotta be right. If your polling differs from reality after an election - details to be determined later - you get demerits. If it happens more and more, you get more and more demerits, and, at some point after x number of polls/elections where you are wrong, you lose your pollster license. .
This would apply to any polling organization, large or small, well funded or shoestring budget. If you're right, you get to continue to ply your trade. If you're consistently wrong for a period of time, you gotta find some other line of work.
Sure, there are details to work out. Like who's going to pay for it, and who's going to enforce the actions. And, sure, there's that whole First Amendment thing to contend with. But, if I say so myself, I think this is a good first step.
