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Pick a keyword, optionally a second one to combine it with (and, or, either but not both, or but not), then narrow the articles down by text, source and time range. Keywords update the results right away; filters apply with their button.

Query

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pollingtopic
electiontopic
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How they overlap

Of the articles on each keyword in the last 7 days, with the same text and sources, how many also mention the other. Per lean: the share of its outlets' articles on polling that mention election.

40.0% of the 5 articles on polling also mention election, as do 0.3% of the 660 articles on election.

Left-leaning1 of 1 article
100.0%
Least biased0 of 1 article
0.0%
Right-leaning1 of 3 articles
33.3%

Who picked it up when

It was already in the news on Oct 21, when this period starts, so who reported it first is not shown. No least biased outlet mentioned it.

One row per source with a matching article, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.

Drag across the strip of articles per day to zoom into some days.

Source lean:leftcenterright

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Results

2 articles mention polling and election in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).

Articles matching the query
Article
PoliticoHow a fake pollster may have moved some 2026 electionsPolitico

Wedgewood Polls admitted that it had made up its survey results. Some candidates say those faked numbers killed their campaigns.

0.70
Washington ExaminerWhat we know about who’s behind the fake polling operation Wedgewood PollsWashington Examiner

Who exactly was running Wedgewood Polls, an admittedly fraudulent polling firm whose data have appeared over the past four months on the polling sites of some of the country’s top aggregators, and why they pursued the project remains one of the biggest mysteries in Washington just weeks before the midterm elections. Several reports say the […]

0.60

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Other keywords in the matching articles: the share of them that mention each, with the number of articles.

No other keyword appears in more than one of the matching articles.

Coverage by source

The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.

Source lean:leftcenterright

Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.

Articles mentioning polling and election, by source, in the last 7 days
Politico3.9%126
Washington Examiner0.3%1290

Coverage by lean

The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.

Left-leaning1 of 15 sources
0.3%
Least biased0 of 8 sources
0.0%
Right-leaning1 of 15 sources
<0.1%

Lean index −2.8: covered more by left-leaning outlets

Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that match the query. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.

lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright

Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.

1 source has no MBFC bias score and is not shown.

Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.