Political Pollsters Made It All Up
Told you so.
Just last month we published a post throwing cold water on political polls. Here’s the money shot:
We should be skeptical about polls and acknowledge that they are not news. They’re soothsaying wrapped in pseudo-science. Sometimes they get it right, often they don’t.
As it turns out, sometimes they don’t even try to get it right.
Case in point: Wedgewood Polling. This “polling organization” has been publishing polls throughout the mid-term campaigns, showing Democrats with large margins of support.
Wedgewood poll results were picked up by The New York Times, Nate Silver and MSNOW, among others.
Yesterday Wedgewood came clean. The polls they published were completely bogus. No one was polled, they cooked up the results. They want us to believe this was some sort of experiment designed to show how flawed polling really is.
I’m calling B.S. on that.
Wedgewood clearly was attempting to suppress Republican votes and create a bandwagon effect for Democrats. Wedgewood polls even messed with the primaries in favor of extreme far-left candidates. For instance, polls showing massive support for Abdul El-Sayed caused at least one of his Democrat primary opponents to drop out after her discouraged donors evaporated. Mallory McMorrow withdrew from the race in July 2026 after a fake Wedgewood poll showed her with 9% of the vote, while El-Sayed led the three-way field with 46%.
Polls also influence where campaigns spend money and how enthusiastic volunteers are. Wedgewood coyly admitted to their fraud only after one news organization became curious and asked about their methodology.
This is meddling in American elections and Wedgewood is not the first to do this. In August, Median Strategies admitted that it published fake data in the Wisconsin Democrat gubernatorial primary and in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Those fraudsters also claimed they were conducting a “social experiment.”
Hopefully, the Department of Justice is investigating these and other polling outfits.
Oh, there’s another serious wrinkle to these scandals: Fake polls influence the betting markets.
It’s not inconceivable that polls could be rigged by people wagering on races.
I smell a RICO case.
