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beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. first round of exits polls will be pointless as far as any specifics and could be lopsided
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:41 PM
Nov 2020

depending on sample timing

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,916 posts)
3. Yes, I'd so so.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:42 PM
Nov 2020

Other than that idiot man wearing the t-shirt that said: My son died of Covid and I'm still voting for Trump.

regnaD kciN

(26,045 posts)
4. Exit polls are especially meaningless this year...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:45 PM
Nov 2020

...since less than half of votes are being cast in-person, and there’s likely a pretty big partisan discrepancy.

Tom Rivers

(459 posts)
5. Will exit polls be both by mail AND in-person, or just in-person?
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:46 PM
Nov 2020

Important that they are clear about that. Very curious how they do exit polling this year. Might be off by quite a bit depending on how they do it.

LAS14

(13,783 posts)
8. I thought the media stopped publishing exit polls before polls closed because of..
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:47 PM
Nov 2020

... the Kerry debacle. No??

tia
las

peggysue2

(10,844 posts)
9. Nate Silver has warned about putting too much credence in the exit polls
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 05:49 PM
Nov 2020

With the extraordinary early and absentee vote that's occurred, he said the snapshot would likely be skewed.

jcgoldie

(11,655 posts)
16. Im glad...
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 06:28 PM
Nov 2020

...because those exit polls from FL GA IA they are throwing up on msnbc look pretty fucked up to me

aaaaaa5a

(4,667 posts)
11. These are exit polls of Republicans. Most of the Dems voted early.
Tue Nov 3, 2020, 06:08 PM
Nov 2020

Remember 2004, Early exit polls led Kerry to think he had won Virginia.

They are meaningless.
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