About that. A lot of those polls make no sense at all. What I mean by that is some of the same polls that found a majority wanted Trump in prison also preferred Trump over Biden in a Presidential match-up. Those two things cannot possibly be true at the same time unless many people have taken leave of their senses.
There are a few things going on here that make these polls less than reliable predictors of the future:
1. The presidential election is 11 months away, and most people aren't really thinking about it yet.
2. Polls conduction through land lines get a skewed sampling of the population and the statistical methods used to detect that skew and correct for it no longer work.
3. Online polls are a poor substitute for random land line phone calls and we have yet to develop the statistical techniques needed to properly interpret the results. Online polls also can be gamed more easily by the subjects being polled (or their passionate followers) and again we don't have techniques to account for that gaming.
To those who have described economics as "the dismal science" I ask, "what about statistics?"
Interestingly, more recent polls show Biden running ahead of Trump. But I doubt those mean anything much either.