Pollaganda

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The term pollaganda, a portmanteau comprised of the words "poll" and "propaganda", refers to a usage of political polling for the purposes of propaganda.

According to The Patriot Post...

Pollaganda is outcome-based opinion samples (polling instruments designed to generate a preferential outcome) based on prior-opinion indoctrination or cultivation by the media, the results of which are then used to manipulate public opinion further by advancing the perception that a particular opinion on an issue has majority support, and then presenting this "data" as if it were "news."

The earliest recorded use of the term is in The Patriot Post, on February 16, 2000.