Friday, October 23, 2026

Why RealClearPolitics Didn't Fall for the Fake Polls | RealClearPolitics

For the second time in as many months, a fraudulent entity claiming to be a polling operation has been outed for releasing fictitious numbers in hotly contested midterm election campaigns. - Carl M. Cannon
The first episode involved an obscure outfit calling itself “Median Strategies,” which claimed that its August poll showed Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass with a double-digit lead over challenger Nithya Raman. 
  • There was no such survey. 
It was a sham carried out by a 21-year-old recent college graduate named Rahil Prakash...
This week, a much more ambitious con job came to light.
“Wedgewood Polling” admitted it was a bogus operation hours before it was about to be exposed...

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