But it's a good reminder of why exit polls should not be treated as the gospel truth. South Carolina happens to be a state that makes the actual turnout data very easy to access. Exit polls aren't completely worthless, but pollsters definitely shouldn't weight their samples to them and their numbers should be looked at...
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All these polls indicate superior GOP turnout in VA, NJ, & NY-23. If it turns out that way, how will polling firms re-jigger their GOP sample sizes? After last November, they used exit polls as an excuse to use ridiculously small GOP samples, giving an edge and, in some cases, momentum to the Dems.
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Political news, polls and buzz ... For your reading pleasure, here are the complete exits polls from New Jersey and Virginia. ... Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
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Discussion Policy ... Mircea Geoana, the onetime foreign minister and leader of the left-leaning Social Democrats, claimed victory, calling the results of the exit polls "a victory for normalcy, a victory for decency, for all citizens who want a better life." But incumbent Traian Basescu immediately disputed the outcome,
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Some exit polls might give some clues. ... So my take, beyond simply getting out the vote, campaign organizations and the rest of it, is Dems blew it on jobs and economic policy, so voters just kicked them out.
www.economicpopulist.org/content/virginia-and-new-jerse... www.economicpopulist.org/content/virginia-and-new-jersey-exit-polls-its-economy
First, that even in an era of homogenized American culture, you can still count on Southerners to come up with cool names like "Saxby Chambliss." And second, that, for all the millions of dollars spent on them, instant results from exit polls mean almost nothing to almost anyone.
www.time.com/time/columnist/poniewozik/article/0,9565,3... www.time.com/time/columnist/poniewozik/article/0,9565,387982,00.html
On the November 6 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang, moderator Mark Shields asked panelist Novak: "This election is an endorsement for George Bush's policy in Iraq?" Novak replied, ... On the contrary, exit polling data from the election indicates that the election was not a clear endorsement of Bush's Iraq policies.
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Exit polls are surveys conducted as voters exit their polling place on Election Day. Reaching voters at that moment is important because it overcomes the problem pollsters have conducting telephone polls: people tend to misreport whether they voted or not.
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POLICY TOWARD SAME-SEX COUPLES ... • Exit polls are a survey of selected voters taken soon after they leave their voting place. Pollsters use this sample information, collected from a small percentage of voters, to track and project how all voters or specific segments of the voters sided on a particular race or...
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Paper: Implementing the KORUS FTA: Key Challenges and Policy Proposals ... Policy Brief 08-6: North Korea on the Precipice of Famine May 2008 ... Policy Brief 07-7: The Korea-US Free Trade Agreement: A Summary Assessment August 2007...
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