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LEAK: THE NYT/SIENA POLL THAT WASN’T MEANT TO BE PUBLISHED.

Whisper it, but the raw cross-tabs from the upcoming survey have been… intercepted. The headline numbers you’ll see tomorrow are a mirage. The real data, buried in the crosstabs, shows a 8-point shift among a single, un-trackable demographic: “Disengaged Independents who recently changed their Netflix password.”

They aren’t responding to the issues. They’re responding to a single, unnamed third-party attack ad running in three isolated media markets. The pollsters know. The algorithm is screaming.

But the cherry-picked questions are being scrubbed.

The clock is ticking. The embargo is a lie. The numbers are alive, and they are moving.

Source: The Ghost in the Machine. Status: Truth is buried in the weighted margin of error. Dig deeper.

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