Methodologically rigorous.
Institutionally adversarial.

Mark R. Mitchell is the Founder and Head Pollster of The Honest Poll, an independent platform built to measure public opinion without spin or narrative.

He previously served as Head Pollster and Vice President of Operations at Rasmussen Reports, where he led national polling efforts and helped grow its digital reach to over a billion annual impressions.

His work has been featured in The Washington Post, Fox News, RealClearPolitics, Newsmax, War Room, and dozens of other national outlets. He has appeared alongside Matt Gaetz, General Michael Flynn, and many others.

Mark founded The Honest Poll to address a growing gap between how public opinion is measured and how it is presented. Polling has become shaped by incentives — media narratives, client expectations, and industry groupthink — and he saw the need for a platform built around a simpler standard: measure accurately, publish transparently, and let the data speak even when inconvenient.

Modern polling is too often distorted by media narratives, client incentives, political consulting capture, advertiser pressure, and industry groupthink.

The result is a public opinion landscape where people see headlines that don’t match their lived experience — because the polls producing those headlines are built to confirm narratives, not challenge them.

The Honest Poll is different. Every poll includes full methodology. Every result gets published regardless of who it helps or hurts. No poll question is designed to lead respondents. No client gets to suppress results.

People are biased. Polls shouldn’t be.