Thu, Oct. 22 Electoral Vote Predictor

Wedgewood Polls has been unmasked as a fake operation. From their website, it was clear they were not a political consultant. And The New York Times used 15 of their polls, so we were in good company being fooled. We have deleted all their polls from our database. This may have been just a prank since their polls are all in line with major pollsters and mostly show Democrats ahead in states where other pollsters also show them to be ahead—and by roughly the same margins as the others. The map and all the graphs and tables on the site are computed from scratch every day, so some of them may be different from yesterday Nevertheless, the fake polls have done real damage. Mallory McMorrow (D) was a rising star in Michigan who was running for the Senate. She was ideologically between Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Abdul El-Sayed. When a Wedgewood poll put her in single digits, her donations dried up and she was forced out of the race. If Mike Rogers wins the race, a lot of people will be…