Posted on 11/06/2016 1:30:19 AM PST by 11th_VA
This Election Day will be different—regardless of how it ends. This time, for the first time, you won’t have to wait until the polls close to find out what happened while they were open. In partnership with the data startup VoteCastr, Slate will be publishing real-time projections of which candidate is winning at any given moment of the day in seven battleground states, any of which could decide who is the next president of the United States.
This, as you may have heard, is controversial. It will break a decadeslong journalistic tradition whereby media outlets obey a self-imposed embargo on voting information under the unproven theory that it might depress turnout on Election Day. But as our Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner put it this summer when she announced the VoteCastr partnership: “The role of journalists is to bring information to people, not to protect them from it.” For the first time, you’ll have access to the same kind of data that campaigns use to monitor voting activity and frame their thinking throughout Election Day. We teamed up with VoteCastr because we don’t think there’s any good reason the candidates and their teams should have a monopoly on that kind of information....
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
Loads...
Exit polls were always highly questionable and potentially dangerous.
In this election we may have the perfect storm of media bias towards one candidate and hostile potential respondents of the other candidate who may not want to talk to exit pollsters.
This may be the last election where exit polling is allowed—and I would be totally fine with that.
Tampering with turnout...I bet every update will show Hillary ahead to depress trumps vote
Bet on it!!
Exit polls are always wrong anyway.
“For the first time, you’ll have access to the same kind of data that campaigns use to monitor voting activity and frame their thinking throughout Election Day.”
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What the JELL does this even mean? “frame their thinking throughout election day”? For what purpose? The campaigning is over, there is nothing which a campaign can do to change the votes (except stuff the ballot box and/or destroy votes).
This is soooo obviously an attempt to manipulate voter sentiment and is right up there with Fla calling the State for Gore before the Panhandle polls were closed in the 2000 election. That is said to have cost Bush about 12,000 votes.
Slate Will Be Doing Everything to supress Republican turnout, especially in the West and Pacific States with Exit Polling from East Coast States ( 3 hrs Ahead )
I agree. They are purposely trying to manipulate the election.
I hope they fail miserably.
Exit polls are far from accurate.
I’ll wait for the raw vote count.
Good so the lefties can wet their pants all day!
There is no “tradition” in journalism save the tradition of lying, deceit, political favoritism, collusion with Democrats (party, politicians, pundits, and operatives and their ilk).
IMO the profession of “journalism” is about the lowest form of life on earth I can imagine, frankly.
This crap will be coordinate to make a Hillary win look likely and demoralize Trump voters. You can take that to the bank.
This will be their last-ditch effort to suppress the landslide. “Hillary ahead comfortably in all battleground states.”
I thought it was LAW that you couldn’t give exit polls before last place closed.
This may be the last election
It will be “fun” for THEM; lying their souls to a cinder about how it’s Hillary by a landslide, and how Trump supporters may as well just stay home. Why ELSE would a gang of rats break the rules?
Good point—It should be if it is not—but don’t know.
“This may be the last election”
I think we have already had our last honest election by WE THE PEOPLE.
Slate will report a close race, but with Crooked winning. The idea is to generate reports that depress turnout for Trump. Don’t fall for it. Vote. Drive people to the polls.
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