You Can’t Make This Up (but They Did): Polling Firm Admits Fabricating Election Results (Updated)

<![CDATA[With the 2026 midterms only days away, a lot of people are looking at a lot of polling, trying to glean what data we can from people carrying out what isn’t exactly an exact science. Polling on candidates and issues often consists of talking to people who aren’t yet sure what they think about those candidates or issues, and polling questions can also be angled to provoke a certain response; this is called “push polling,” and that’s more propagandizing than information-gathering.]]>