Fake Pollsters And Those Who Loved Them
Four polling outfits have recently been exposed as utter frauds, fabricating data and sharing fraudulent reports. Clarice Feldman | October 25, 2026 In August and this month, four different polling outfits were exposed for fabricating data. In August, Median Strategies admitted inventing polls on the Los Angeles mayoral contest and the election races in Nevada and Wisconsin as a “social experiment”. That same month, an outfit called Public Sentiment admitted having altered data in the Florida GOP primary polls in order to favor a client. This month two more firms were exposed: Wedgewood Polls and SoCal Strategies. Wedgewood (about which I can find the most follow-up) was widely promoted by the NY Times and the Silver Bulletin, its most broadly touted figures promoted Michigan Democratic senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed. SoCal was also unmasked this month, after people started poking…
