
Pollsters routinely miss the mark, but some pollsters aren’t even trying to hit the target.
Just months after a polling outfit that gave Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D) a false sense of momentum was exposed as a fraud — or as they put it, a “short-term social experiment” — another pollster has been outed as a phony.
‘Don’t fall for it.’
On Tuesday, the election forecasting website FiftyPlusOne confronted Wedgewood Polls — which claimed on its now-deleted website to be “a nonpartisan, online-panel survey research firm covering competitive U.S. House, Senate, and gubernatorial races nationwide” — with evidence that it had been fabricating data.
The fake pollster immediately dropped the mask, first issuing a statement on social media claiming that it was “an experimental project to demonstrate the
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