these extreme right wing candidates to make them seem more mainstream by virtue of their polling advantage. take don bolduc. forecasters pumped his race to a tossup. but it didn t come to pass. lost by ten points. o dea. wasn t much to count when the polls came in, another double digit loss. those candidates got pundits to say over and over that they looked better than their reality, and then they would fundraise off those claims, and this is a trend. poll averages repeatedly overstating republican support, as the journal reports, including sources that claim to aggregate polls but may put a