{"id":690320,"date":"2026-10-21T14:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=690320"},"modified":"2026-10-21T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:48:16","slug":"bogus-polling-firm-admits-numbers-are-fraudulent-claims-experimental-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=690320","title":{"rendered":"Bogus polling firm admits numbers are fraudulent, claims &#8216;experimental project&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A firm that has published widely circulated midterm political polls  has acknowledged that its numbers were &#8220;fabricated&#8221; and claimed they were part of an experiment that duped some media outlets.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/10\/12\/Election_2_26-Voting_Restrictions_54149_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" title=\"Bogus polling firm admits numbers are fraudulent, claims &apos;experimental project&apos;\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A firm that has published widely circulated midterm political polls has acknowledged that its numbers were &#8220;fabricated&#8221; and claimed they were part of an experiment that duped some media outlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-690320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690320","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=690320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}