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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.

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

5 articles mention polling in the last 7 days (Oct 21 to Oct 27).

Articles matching the query
Article
The HillNate Silver: Polling 'would have to be very wrong' for Republicans to maintain House controlThe Hill

Pollster Nate Silver claimed Sunday that polling “would have to be very wrong” for Republicans to hold on to the House, comments that came a little more than a week before this year’s midterms. “You've seen high turnout in Democratic primaries all year. We talk about the early voting data too. You know, the hard...

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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 […]

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New York PostSneaky troll polls boost the far left — yet we keep falling for themNew York Post

A brand-new pollster with no track record, no known institution behind it, and nobody checking its work? Voter beware.

0.70●
National ReviewThe Wedgewood Fake Polls ScandalNational Review

An actual fake polls scandal shows the need for continued skeptical appraisal, not simply ignoring all polling data.

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. The search icon searches for polling and that keyword, keeping the text, sources, source type and time range.

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, by source, in the last 7 days
Politico4.0%125
The Hill0.3%1349
Washington Examiner0.4%1287
New York Post0.1%1801
National Review2.5%140

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 biased1 of 8 sources
<0.1%
Right-leaning3 of 15 sources
0.2%

Lean index +0.9: covered about evenly across the spectrum

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.