Last night, Wedgewood Polls admitted that its “polling” was an “experimental project,” allegedly designed to test whether news outlets would publish polls without verifying their methodology and legitimacy.
So, it’s not just that Democratic pollsters are bad at polling. Some Democratic “industry veterans” with zero statistical credentials are now masquerading as pollsters—and outlets like The New York Times, MS NOW, and Newsweek are citing their faulty margins anyway.
“Left-wing outlets are just as culpable for platforming fake polls as the Democratic operatives who fabricated them. Abdul El-Sayed and Troy Jackson may have fooled the press during their primaries, but their radical, tax-hiking agendas won’t fool voters this November,” said NRSC National Press Secretary Bernadette Breslin.
Wedgewood’s bogus polls showed Abdul El-Sayed and Troy Jackson beating Mike Rogers and Susan Collins, respectively, and even had Scott Colom statistically tied with Cindy Hyde-Smith. El-Sayed also used the fake poll in fundraising emails to court donors.
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