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re: Wedgewood Polls admits to being completely, intentionally fake
Posted on 10/21/26 at 7:56 am to imjustafatkid
Posted on 10/21/26 at 7:56 am to imjustafatkid
Posted on 10/21/26 at 8:01 am to VoxDawg
The anti Trump bots in here today make me feel great about the midterms
Posted on 10/21/26 at 8:04 am to RelicBatches86
You can tell from the language used and the overall structure of the writing that their press release was created by Claude
Posted on 10/21/26 at 8:11 am to NashvilleTider
They can't even, and I'm here for it.
How long until someone goes in to the Wedgewood website ex post facto and buries some white font on white background text that it's "sAtIrE"?
How long until someone goes in to the Wedgewood website ex post facto and buries some white font on white background text that it's "sAtIrE"?
Posted on 10/21/26 at 8:13 am to imjustafatkid
Actually, it doesn’t…
Posted on 10/21/26 at 8:35 am to VOR
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Actually, it doesn’t…
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:27 am to imjustafatkid
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being highly rated among aggregators like Nate Silver
They were unrated by Silver
The weighting being used in those screenshots you probably saw from your algorithm were because they were recent.
Even still, multiple other models gave them a D rating and accused them of faking their data, so much so they were even exposed by one of those pollsters and released this news dump to get ahead of that fact.
Check the community note, even though I know you hate those
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Wedgewood Polls released this statement after FiftyPlusOne contacted them regarding evidence of fabricated poll data. They had shared fraudulent raw data the prior day and raised crowdfunding for polls presented as legitimate.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:31 am to NawlinsTiger9
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They were unrated by Silver
There are literally screenshots in the tweet I linked in my OP showing Nate Bronze's ranking weighing this poll higher than others.
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Wedgewood Polls released this statement after FiftyPlusOne contacted them regarding evidence of fabricated poll data. They had shared fraudulent raw data the prior day and raised crowdfunding for polls presented as legitimate.
What is it, exactly, that you think this changes about this development?
This post was edited on 10/21/26 at 9:33 am
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:33 am to imjustafatkid
I literally just explained all of that to you
“But why male models?”
“But why male models?”
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:33 am to NawlinsTiger9
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I literally just explained all of that to you
“But why male models?”
Thanks for confirming my premise. What exactly do you think you're proving in this thread? All you've done is confirm this polling source was fraudulent and the mainstream media relied upon it.
This post was edited on 10/21/26 at 9:34 am
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:34 am to imjustafatkid
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Their fake polls have been posted in both the NYT and Nate Silver’s averages.
Nate Oxidized Iron is in shambles.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 9:45 am to imjustafatkid
Nobody relied on it. Most had them so lowly rated that it didn’t move the results of polling averages at all. That’s the whole point, they got caught faking data and released an “I was just test driving it, not stealing it!” level explanation, but none of their polls were moving the needle anyway.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:06 am to NawlinsTiger9
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Nobody relied on it. Most had them so lowly rated that it didn’t move the results of polling averages at all. That’s the whole point, they got caught faking data and released an “I was just test driving it, not stealing it!” level explanation, but none of their polls were moving the needle anyway.
You are the perfect example of this:
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:09 am to imjustafatkid
This is so when Dems lose they will throw a tantrum. Everyone knows the polls are off by 3-5% at minimum and likely 50/50 elections we don’t know.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:14 am to imjustafatkid
So which polling averages did it change?
What result is projected to be different now that Wedgewood got busted for being a fraud?
What result is projected to be different now that Wedgewood got busted for being a fraud?
This post was edited on 10/21/26 at 11:15 am
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:28 am to NawlinsTiger9
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Wedgewood Polling released a statement Tuesday night claiming its fake data was an "experimental project" to expose vulnerabilities in the polling industry. But Democrats aren't buying it. The outfit's surveys were cited by The New York Times and Decision Desk HQ, shaped donor decisions, and were used to pressure Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow to drop out of her primary against Abdul El-Sayed, McMorrow claims. McMorrow also says the phony polls dried up her fundraising at a critical moment while reporters hounded her to quit.
Former Kamala Harris advisor Mike Nellis called the people behind Wedgewood "absolute scumbags" and said they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Times has since scrubbed 15 Wedgewood polls from its coverage. Decision Desk HQ pulled 17. And now investigators say Wedgewood only released its confession after learning it was about to be publicly exposed for fraud.
NawlinsTiger9:
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:41 am to imjustafatkid
That’s an astounding amount of words to not answer my questions at all
Sounds like it went down exactly the way I described it.
Sounds like it went down exactly the way I described it.
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:50 am to imjustafatkid
Fake polls
Fake mail flyers in Texas
Fake stories about Texans visiting insane asylums in Ohio
Promises to pay $5,000 if one party wins, which would most likely not be allowed
That’s a lot of deception so far…
Fake mail flyers in Texas
Fake stories about Texans visiting insane asylums in Ohio
Promises to pay $5,000 if one party wins, which would most likely not be allowed
That’s a lot of deception so far…
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:52 am to AGGIES
Happily cancelled your Talarico vote yesterday along with two dozen coworkers
Posted on 10/21/26 at 11:59 am to AGGIES
This, too
For all the made up hysteria about mass voter fraud, republicans sure have been dirty as hell this go around
One could call it desperate
For all the made up hysteria about mass voter fraud, republicans sure have been dirty as hell this go around
One could call it desperate
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