Fake Polls Fooled the Media: Can You Trust a Single Number Before the Midterms?

With less than two weeks until Election Day, Erin Maguire and Kurt Bardella skip the horse-race polling and look at where campaigns are putting their money, how early voting is shaping up, and what candidates are doing to turn out their voters. They examine the closing stretches in Florida, Georgia, Texas, and Michigan before tackling one of the cycle’s most controversial ads: Vivek Ramaswamy featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother. When is a candidate’s family fair game? Finally, Erin and Kurt take on growing questions about the reliability of public polling, what newsrooms should demand before publishing another survey, and why the final days of a campaign are increasingly about mobilization rather than persuasion. Plus, Left Field Lunacy takes them to an unexpected final resting place: the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium.