[You don’t trust pollsters? I’m shocked! Shocked, I say! ]
I trust pollsters. What I don’t trust is outlying polls. Pollsters want to be accurate. Candidates don’t want pollsters to massage their egos, only to find out that those polls were wrong when they end up losing elections. They want the truth, before the election returns come in, so they know ahead of time if they need to change the way they’re campaigning.