Wedgewood Polls

§1About

✎ Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Wedgewood Polls published election surveys during the 2026 campaign; according to FiftyPlusOne and The National News Desk, it said on October 20, 2026 that it had fabricated the data behind most of them and called the effort an experiment.^1,2 According to Straight Arrow News, its website listed no phone number, address or staff, and the person who answered that outlet's questions did not give a name.³

§2Whom it works for

Why this matters: A firm that also works for one party's campaigns can still publish accurate polls, but readers deserve to know.

Doesn’t say whom it works for. No statement by Wedgewood about working for candidates or parties was found; Straight Arrow News reported that its website listed no staff, and the reports read do not name any party or campaign client.^2,3

Of its 11 polls listed since the 2024 election, VoteHub flags 0 as paid for by a Democratic-aligned sponsor and 0 by a Republican-aligned sponsor⁴.

§3Documented findings

Why this matters: Only findings by a professional body, a court, a regulator, an aggregator's own published decision, or the pollster itself are listed, each cited to that decision.

• Wedgewood Polls, October 20, 2026. According to The National News Desk, Wedgewood said in a statement posted on X on October 20, 2026 that the vast majority of its releases had no real data behind them and that only one crowdfunded Nebraska poll was genuine; FiftyPlusOne, which had questioned the firm about its data, reported the same admission.^1,2
• Silver Bulletin, October 21, 2026. Silver Bulletin wrote on October 22, 2026 that it had removed the Wedgewood polls from its database the day before, after the firm admitted fabricating data, and that its averages and forecasts were little changed by the removal.⁵
• The New York Times, October 2026. According to The National News Desk, The New York Times removed 15 Wedgewood polls released from June to October 2026 from its projections, and said the firm had earlier answered its vetting questions about the pollsters' identities, methods and funding.²
• Decision Desk HQ, October 2026. According to The National News Desk, Decision Desk HQ removed 17 Wedgewood polls from its projections and said the removal did not change its projected seat totals or chamber control probabilities.²

Because Wedgewood Polls withdrew them itself, its polls up to October 20, 2026 stay listed below, struck through, but are left out of the latest polls and of every comparison on this site, including other pollsters' house effects.

§4Its polls

§5What we looked for and didn't find

• No kind, founding date or self-description was found: wedgewoodpolls.com now redirects to a Google Sites page that requires a sign-in, and the firm's X statement was not read directly.
• Who runs the firm was not confirmed from a primary source; FiftyPlusOne reported two names the firm gave it, which are left out of this draft for a reviewer to decide on.
• No ownership, news partner, standing client or fieldwork vendor was found. News reports say the firm claimed to use the Pollfish platform for a Mississippi survey whose data FiftyPlusOne found to be fabricated, so no fieldwork relationship is recorded.
• The New York Times editors' note and the Decision Desk HQ statement were not read directly (nytimes.com could not be fetched and no Decision Desk HQ page was found), so both findings rest on The National News Desk report.
• No VoteHub statement on whether it removed the polls was found; comments by VoteHub staff on X are not used.
• No AAPOR statement, court case or regulator action naming the firm was found; The National News Desk reported comments on X by the FCC chair about fabricated polls but no formal action.
• Its sample releases are Google Drive files that were not read.