On October 21, Wedgwood Polls admitted it fabricated election numbers that outlets including the New York Times and MSNBC cited as legitimate, calling the project a test of the polling industry. The admission revived the dispute over Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, where State Senator Mallory McMorrow says bogus polling showed her support collapsing and pressured her to leave the race in July; Abdul El-Sayed won that primary over Representative Haley Stevens. The discussion has widened: Baris says traders bought prediction-market shares before Wedgwood's polls published, then took profits as markets leveled off; FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened the licenses of broadcasters who air fake polls; and reporting has found one fake pollster took money to boost James Fishback in Florida…