America has a polling problem.
In the recent Michigan Democrat Senate primary, the polls were way off. Then the same thing happened in the Wisconsin Democrat governor primary. In both cases, the polls favored the far left candidates.
Now the same thing is happening in Los Angeles, although in this case, the poll favored Karen Bass, the supposed establishment candidate over Nithya Raman, the DSA loon candidate.
From the Los Angeles Times, via Yahoo News:
Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus, company says
A poll claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was leading Councilmember Nithya Raman by a wide margin — and picking up support from most voters who backed Spencer Pratt in the mayoral primary — was bogus, the company behind the poll acknowledged Monday.
The fake poll by Median Strategies showed Bass leading Raman by nearly 12 percentage points ahead of the Nov. 3 mayoral runoff, and said the results were based on a survey of 560 Los Angeles voters between July 30 and Aug. 5. It said it had a 4.1% margin of error.
But Monday, in response to repeated inquiries from The Times, the company said the purported “poll” was nothing of the kind.
“Median Strategies was created as a short term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said in an email to The Times. “We are not seeking publicity or attribution for the individuals involved and are declining interviews.”
The phony poll also claimed that 16% of its respondents said they had voted for Pratt, and that of those voters, about 85% were planning to vote for Bass in the general, while about 7% would support Raman.
“Faced with a choice between the incumbent and a Democratic Socialists of America-aligned challenger, most Pratt voters appear to be treating Bass as the more familiar, more moderate option rather than sitting out the race,” Median wrote in its analysis.
NEW: The company behind a recent poll that showed Karen Bass with a 12-point lead over Nithya Raman for LA mayor & showed Bass collecting most of Spencer Pratt’s prior support has admitted their poll was FAKE and was intended as a “social experiment” to see how a poll could…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) August 17, 2026
Polls have always been used by partisans to try to influence the public, but it seems much more rampant in this election cycle.
And it always favors Democrats. Isn’t that strange?
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