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In reply to the discussion: RE Pew Poll: Election 2004, 8:00 PM Exit Polls Revealed Kerry Had 304 Electoral Votes. Bush, 174 [View all]summerschild
(725 posts)18. I've been wondering why the change in Exit Polls this year...
Posted by Newsjock:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014255567
Networks, AP cancel exit polls in 19 states
Source: Washington Post
Breaking from two decades of tradition, this years election exit poll is set to include surveys of voters in 31 states, not all 50 as it has for the past five presidential elections, according to multiple people involved in the planning.
The National Election Pool a joint venture of the major television networks and The Associated Press has not announced the states that wont be included, but the decision is sure to cause some pain to election watchers across the country.
Voters in the excluded states will still be interviewed as part of a national exit poll, but state-level estimates of the partisan, age or racial makeups of electorates wont be available as they have been since 1992. The lack of data may hamper election night analyses in some states, and it will almost certainly limit post-election research for years to come.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/10/04/networks-ap-cancel-exit-polls-in-19-states/
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RE Pew Poll: Election 2004, 8:00 PM Exit Polls Revealed Kerry Had 304 Electoral Votes. Bush, 174 [View all]
Kurovski
Oct 2012
OP
Exactly. Which is why I wonder if anyone here thinks they're going to do a goddamn thing about it
villager
Oct 2012
#27
They Will Try to Replicate OH/FL/04 in OH, FL, PA, WI, and Any Other State They Control
AndyTiedye
Oct 2012
#10
Obama will call them out, regardless of the consequences to his own career.
lindysalsagal
Oct 2012
#15
Google Spoonamore and voting machines. There is a 30 minute video of him explaining how
Dustlawyer
Oct 2012
#14