{"id":654105,"date":"2026-08-18T18:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=654105"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T18:32:47","slug":"pollster-that-put-francesca-hong-karen-bass-in-lead-admits-its-a-fake-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=654105","title":{"rendered":"Pollster That Put Francesca Hong, Karen Bass In Lead Admits It\u2019s A Fake Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-18-at-1.27.51-PM-scaled-e1787074254461-1200x675.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Failed Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong\" \/>Francesca Hong, the failed communist candidate in the Wyoming gubernatorial primary race, was supposed to shellac David Crowley. After all, she had a 23-point lead over her opponent, according to data from Median Strategies. But it turns out Median Strategies was a fake polling company that just wanted to run a \u201csocial experiment\u201d and observe [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-18-at-1.27.51-PM-scaled-e1787074254461-1200x675.png\" title=\"Pollster That Put Francesca Hong, Karen Bass In Lead Admits It\u2019s A Fake Firm\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesca Hong, the failed communist candidate in the Wyoming gubernatorial primary race, was supposed to shellac David Crowley. After all, she had a 23-point lead over her opponent, according to data from Median Strategies. But it turns out Median Strategies was a fake polling company that just wanted to run a \u201csocial experiment\u201d and observe&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=654105\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pollster That Put Francesca Hong, Karen Bass In Lead Admits It\u2019s A Fake Firm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":654106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/654106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}