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There’s a 100 Percent Chance These Polls Are Fake

All polls are imperfect. These were something else entirely.

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Over the past few months, an upstart political polling firm kept delivering good news for Democrats—and especially those on the left. Across more than a dozen surveys, it found progressives leading in key primary races and showed other Democrats in striking distance of winning traditionally Republican states. Except, it turns out, the surveys were fake.…