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Oct 23, 2026
Dan PfeifferHOST
But – Could you trust anyone you never heard? Probably if you haven't heard of the person, you should not trust.
Dan PfeifferHOST
I had forgotten Nate and his column wrote about two firms in the 2010s, Strategic Vision and Research 2000, that were fake polling firms.
Dan PfeifferHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah,
Jon LovettHOST
yeah.
Dan PfeifferHOST
And Research 2000 was incredibly sketchy because they actually got media outlets to pay them for polls, like newspapers.
Dan PfeifferHOST
And so they were just making money on the side.
Dan PfeifferHOST
That's a red flag right
Nate SilverGUEST
I helped expose one called Strategic Vision back in the day in 2009.
Nate SilverGUEST
Research 2000 was another.
Nate SilverGUEST
They prominently polled for state newspapers, for Daily Kos, and other places.
Nate SilverGUEST
And at least substantial parts of their polling were falsified.
Kevin JacksonHOST
Median Strategies admitted publishing fake polls earlier this year.
Kevin JacksonHOST
And then there's Research 2000.
Kevin JacksonHOST
In another of these cases, allegations of fabricated or manipulated data.
Kevin JacksonHOST
I've been telling you guys this forever.
David NirHOST
And there were people, I don't know how common it was, but there definitely have been people over the years slapping together fake data.
David NirHOST
And at the time, this was back in the late 2000s, Daily Kos had hired this firm called Research 2000 that was cranking out tons and tons of polls.
David NirHOST
And then it happened that those polls were like pretty crappy in terms of they they did not do a great job predicting the elections.
David NirHOST
And so these statisticians dug into the crosstabs and this the way they busted them, I thought was like really interesting and really funny.
David NirHOST
But yeah, this has been going on for a long time, though.
David NirHOST
It's definitely easier than ever now.
Mary RadcliffeGUEST
I remember one more detail about the Research 2000 investigation.
Mary RadcliffeGUEST
That was very wonderful.
Jacob RubashkinHOST
We've had these issues before.
Jacob RubashkinHOST
Nathan, probably you remember the Research 2000 case.
Jacob RubashkinHOST
you know, scandal of the Daily Kos era where they were just faking results.
Jacob RubashkinHOST
And look, Marcos took him to court.
Nate SilverHOST
I uncovered a fraudulent firm called Strategic Vision way back in like 2009 that had been around for a very long time.
Nate SilverHOST
Research 2000 was a very prolific pollster, right? So part of the reason I get my back up is like, There is due diligence being performed.
Nate SilverHOST
To be fair, it's not being done by Silver Bulletin.
Nate SilverHOST
It's being done by Primera, The Times, and 50 Plus One, I think.