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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rachel just said exit polls always wrong & tend to favor Dems. They didn't start being wrong until [View all]
the 2004 presidential election. Prior to that, they were considered the gold standard for predicting election results. The fact that exit polls don't match results does not mean that exit polls suddenly became wrong. So in Alabama, we have exit polls showing much higher than predicted African AMerican turnout, and lots of voter suppression and them being given provisional ballots after being told they are missing from the registration list. Favorite trick of Rs. Those provisional ballots end up being trashed.
The right question is why do the results not match the exit polls?
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Rachel just said exit polls always wrong & tend to favor Dems. They didn't start being wrong until [View all]
Amaryllis
Dec 2017
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Exactly. Sorry to see RAchel buying into this. She literally said they are always wrong and
Amaryllis
Dec 2017
#2
Too bad Rachel made such an assumption without documentation to back her statement
diva77
Dec 2017
#5
a lady on rachel's show just mentioned the lawsuit we lost last night about
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#10
ei peops sued and won to get the digital images preserved,then late last night al supremes overturne
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#12
me too..i don't think hrc actually lost either wisconsin or michigan
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#16
I think most media people do not understand election integrity. It takes about 3 months to really
diva77
Dec 2017
#20
Agree! No one seems to do a scientific, logical, exam on why suddenly exit polls are always wrong.
UCmeNdc
Dec 2017
#25
i personally remember in 2000 the pundits talking about how accurate exit polls "used to be,"
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#32
agreed, except you forgot election hacking as an explanation for the skewed exit polls. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#36
how come they knew how to do it 20 years ago, but now it's a very inexact, "evolving" science,
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#35