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W_HAMILTON

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1. Don't put too much stock into exit polls right now.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Tue Nov 10, 2020, 03:00 AM

Nov 2020

Not even counting the trouble trying to coalesce the discrepancy in in-person voting and mail-in voting specific to this year, exit polls in general aren't really finalized until a couple of months after the election, once they can be properly adjusted to reflect the final composite of the electorate.

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