Supposedly he had wildly inaccurate internal polls. I don't know who was scamming who though. Seemed like his campaign believed them.

The unskewed polls really hurt in the end because all of that talk of momentum cause people to become assured of victory. The letdown was harsh.

all it would do is make damn sure nobody ever uses that pollster again.

No legitimate polling company would do this...Of course it might happen there are a lot of scumbags that would do anything for a few bucks.

and would therefore likely feel the risk was not worth it. Also, in the non-example you are not citing, one would have to assume several poll companies were in cahoots, since nearly all of them show nearly identical results.

some "employee" acting as a pollster, whether they are qualified or not... they will do what the candidate tells them to do, and if not a "qualified" actor in such a position, it relieves them of feeling responsible as someone who actually does this for a living. The fact that someone was hired to perform a task and has little to no knowledge of what actual polling is or how it is conducted will do the master's bidding for the reward of $$ no matter what the consequences for the rest of us might be.

A company that is savvy and unethical enough can make their own political map and know ahead of time which phone numbers will provide the desired result.

Yeah, I am cynical enough to believe it has already happened as a form of practice. And I think if you try really hard, you would agree.

You couldn't keep that under wraps for long.