RW talk show host Jason Rantz keeps demonstrating he'd rather blatantly spin poll results than honestly interpret them [View all]

With summer in full swing and the home stretch of the 2026 midterm election cycle rapidly approaching, Seattle-based right wing talk show host Jason Rantz is once again performing one of his favorite pre-election rituals: twisting poll results to hype Republican candidates and right wing ballot measures in Washington State.

In the last few days, Rantz and his staff at Seattle Red (that’s what KTTH calls itself nowadays) have generated not one, but two propaganda pieces spinning poll results to promote a narrative that Republicans are on their way to a romp in November.

In the first piece, Rantz used a polling memo recently created for a right wing group calling itself the Concerned Taxpayers Accountability Center to argue that Brian Heywood’s initiative to repeal the million-dollar earners tax looks unbeatable.

In the second, Rantz tried to turn a statistically meaningless one-point difference in NPI’s polling between Democratic U.S. Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican challenger John Braun in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District into the pronouncement that “even the left’s own poll shows Braun beating Perez.”

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/07/right-wing-talk-show-host-jason-rantz-keeps-demonstrating-hed-rather-blatantly-spin-poll-results-than-honestly-interpret-them.html

I haven't listened to Rantz in years, but his typical style is to build up and knock down straw men.