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Exit polls (none / 0)

What happened with the exit polls? The ones that were posted on the front page here yesterday ended up being drastically off in some cases. Obama was said to be +2 in MA and ended up losing by 15 points. Obama was said to be +7 (IIRC) in NJ and lost by 10 points.

Exit polls are supposed to be very, very solid with very small margins of error. The differences in at least these two cases are large. Anyone have any insight on what went wrong in those two places? Small undemographically sound sample sizes?


by Quinton on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 04:09:51 PM EST

Re: Exit polls (none / 0)

The CNN exit polling was basically horrible across the board.


"Another problem we have...is that in election years we behave somewhat as primitive peoples do at the time of the full moon." --Harry Truman
by Steve M on Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 04:28:54 PM EST
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