Following FiftyPlusOne’s investigation into suspected data fabrication by individuals claiming to work for Wedgewood Polls, today we are publishing the results of a parallel investigation into an associated pollster known as SoCal Strategies.
When an anonymous source first reached out about Wedgewood Polls, they also divulged information to FiftyPlusOne that cast doubt on the authenticity of some (not all) polls published by SoCal Strategies. The article below summarizes what we found after looking into these claims.
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, FiftyPlusOne conducted an interview with a person affiliated with SoCal Strategies. Since that interview, FiftyPlusOne has been waiting for a statement and additional information that the person indicated they would send this week. However, as of this morning, according to the Washington Post, the website for SoCal Strategies and a previously active Twitter/X account, @SocalStrategies, have been taken offline. The Substack page where SoCal Strategies posted poll results has also gone dark.
We reached back out to the person we spoke to earlier in the week by phone and email today, but as of publication, we have not yet heard back. Because it is policy here at FiftyPlusOne not to aggregate data from pollsters we cannot get in contact with, and because we have received credible claims of wrongdoing from multiple sources, and further because we cannot verify basic legal information about the business SoCal Strategies or biographical details about the people involved, FiftyPlusOne will no longer collect surveys published by SoCal Strategies. Two previous surveys whose authenticity has been disputed will be removed from our database. Other polls (mostly from before May 2026) conducted by SoCal Strategies will remain.