Unsurprisingly, those turned out to be fabrications. Regardless, these models aggregate dozens to hundreds of polling organizations. If Monmouth tried to 'creat

Unsurprisingly, those turned out to be fabrications. Regardless, these models aggregate dozens to hundreds of polling organizations. If Monmouth tried to 'create a narrative,' as described in the purported memo it would just end up looking out of step and would lose credibility. > The "leaked memo" is a small test of readers' credulity. Written in apocalyptic terms, with strange capitalization ("the Liberal base is demoralized — but will become more enthusiastic the more Hillary is seen as an iconoclast who will overturn the last foundations of Western Culture"), it was uploaded to Scribd by a pro-Trump website with the confidence-inspiring name of RealTrueNews. For a short while, it was credited to Nate Silver; his name was blacked out, rendering it slightly less odd that someone who did not work for Monmouth was credited on a Monmouth polling memo. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09/21/fake-polling-memo-prompts-the-question-how-much-are-partisans-willing-to-believe/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/09...