What we know about who’s behind the fake polling operation Wedgewood Polls

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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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