Real surveys
Half-baked thought.
If you really want to know what people are thinking, ignore polls and surveys and "elections". Polls and "elections" are explicitly and comprehensively designed to give NO CHOICE at all. The correct answer is never among the survey choices, nor among the candidates. A poll or "election" will never reach a conclusion outside the lines of the official game.
Instead, pay attention to situations where people are both OBLIGED and ALLOWED to make a real decision. This includes three categories. Juries, big-money purchases, and church choices.
Juries make serious decisions, and jurors are ALLOWED to choose. They consistently give CORRECT ANSWERS that STRONGLY oppose the official game. In the biggest cases, ACLU devils or Federal black-robed satans will overturn the jury-generated sanity, but that's fairly rare. It takes a lot of work, so it's not worth the trouble for every criminal or lawsuit.
Big-money decisions like house purchases and college choices are equally serious and equally ALLOWED. Die-Versity laws try to eliminate these choices, but it doesn't work. You can't FORCE a buyer to pick a house in a bad neighborhood, and you can't FORCE a parent to choose a bad college.
Nice recent example of the latter:
College departments of evil are losing money as parents and students decide to stop paying for evil.
Churches are another situation where people have REAL choices and are ALLOWED to choose. When your church switches to Satan's side, nobody forces you to stay. So actual Christians go away. Then the Satan-infested church either fades or becomes a vacant zombie dependent on funding from Church Headquarters in NYC.