Maddow: There were no exit polls in New Jersey, so there won't be any projections

[pnwmom]

till enough votes are counted -- they won't be able to combine results of exit polls with today's results.

[valerief]

1. Wouldn't want exit polls contradicting the official vote counts. That's why they did away

with exit polls after 2004, even though exit polls had been accurate for decades. Gee, what changed?

[pnwmom]

2. Exit polls aren't that much more accurate than other polls.

One, they rely on choosing select precincts to be representative of other precincts -- and sometimes they're not.

Two, they need voters to cooperate and many of them will walk right by.

Three, they don't include absentee voters. And in this election, where Hillary dominates among older voters and those most likely to vote absentee, that makes a real difference.

[valerief]

3. And yet they were accurate before the proliferation of electronic voting. nt

[pnwmom]

7. In what other election do you remember such a stratification by age?

And such a high percentage of some form of vote-by-mail?

When you leave out a large percentage of older voters, and older voters heavily prefer one of the candidates, the exit polls aren't going to match the results

[valerief]

10. Your nonsensical diversions cannot deny the validity of exit polls. See post #8. nt

[NWCorona]

9. This!

[GreatGazoo]

11. the GOP exit polls were within MOE this year

but Hillary beat some exit polls by 10% or more

[pokerfan]

8. Around the world...

Around the world, exit polls have been used to verify the integrity of elections. The United States has funded exit polls in Eastern Europe to detect fraud. Discrepancies between exit polls and the official vote count have been used to successfully overturn election results in Ukraine, Serbia, and Georgia.

Read more: http://electiondefensealliance.org/frequently_asked_questions_about_exit_polls#ixzz4Ax2EKTa2

[pnwmom]

12. Where is your evidence that those elections use absentee voting and early voting

to the degree we do? Exit polls don't count these voters, so that can affect their accuracy in the US and any other place that has high numbers of early and absentee voters.

[Grassy Knoll]

4. I Had A Feeling M$NBC Would DRAAAAGG It out.

[pnwmom]

5. I haven't found any other network with exit polls, have you?

I suspect they're spending their money in California.

[msongs]

6. I thought bernie was paying for exit polls by some group or other nt