Claims & sources
Mainstreet Research
Claims & sources for Mainstreet Research. Every fact below is a verbatim quote from a real document we have stored. ↩ See the full Record
| Claim | Asserted by | Stance | Evidence balance | Source | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| political polling for these firms is marketing | unattributed | pro | +3.0 | Pass 2: The Forensics, the Math, and the | ↗ |
| Mainstreet's reforms are real | unattributed | pro | +1.0 | Pass 2: The Forensics, the Math, and the | ↗ |
| The deliberate-rigging hypothesis is not supported by the fact that the most accurate firm is the least federally networked. | unattributed | critical | +1.0 | PASS 5 — FOLLOW THE MONEY: The Canadian | ↗ |
| Mainstreet's 2025 result is partially unverifiable | Éric Grenier | critical | — | Pass 2: The Forensics, the Math, and the | ↗ |
| political polling for these firms is marketing | unattributed | pro | — | Pass 2: The Forensics, the Math, and the | ↗ |
| the incentive is to maximize visibility, which means publishing frequently and being part of the story — not necessarily to maximize accuracy | unattributed | neutral | — | Pass 2: The Forensics, the Math, and the | ↗ |
| the single most damaging fact for pollster independence is not who pays for the polls — it is who runs them | unattributed | neutral | — | PASS 5 — FOLLOW THE MONEY: The Canadian | ↗ |
| Anti-SLAPP protects the journalist; it does not protect against the pollster simply refusing to give interviews | unattributed | neutral | — | PASS 4 — The Researchers, The Natural Ex | ↗ |