“People, understandably, are having trouble believing in the polls,” Nate Silver acknowledged to New York Times columnist Ezra Klein.
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Strong polls encourage people to vote. Weak polls discourage participation and donations.
https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/what-fake-wedgewood-polls-scandal-reveals-about-election-polling/
Just this year - Michigan primary - one campaign says their donations plummeted when fake polls claimed they were far behind.