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The data is not meant for release prior to polls closing. Any publication of such means it was leaked.

Which is EXACTLY the reason that it needs to be discussed HERE!

If it is being leaked it is being leaked to discourage Republicans from voting. We need to be here to remind people of how innaccurate they are and to remind people that the only reason it is being leaked is to discourage us. We need to be free to discuss it so that we can remind encourage the base to get the vote out.

The leaks will be out there. But we will not be here to put them into perspective. Instead we will be playing the role of the MSM and somehow "respecting" the spirit of the exit polls.

I do not respect exit polls. I frankly think that exit pollers should be shot on sight. They exist for the sole purpose of being leaked. But once they are leaked, then there will be no place to go to put them into perspective. I guess we'll all just have to believe the leaks, huh?

Sad.

I see your point about freedom of discussion but isn't your reasoning a little circular? You say you hate exit polls and don't trust them, and that exit polls won't change any freepers votes anyway, so why discuss them? We don't need someone to put them in perspective for us. Are you assuming freepers will go out and proselyte other discouraged voters after checking with all the wildly swinging exit polls? Not much chance of that, we'd be too busy updating our computers on the exit poll threads.

Being from the left coast, our polls don't close until 11 pm Eastern time (then there's Hawaii) and I for one resent the discussions about exit polls because it tempts commentators to call national races before a goodly portion of us even get a chance to vote, let alone have our vote actually counted.

If I had my druthers, I would embargo all vote prognostications until at least 24 hours after Hawaii's polls close, but that's unrealistic so absentee ballots would also count. However, the more we discuss exit polls, the more likely exit polling companies are going to be encouraged to do them and post results as early as possible. I think a boycott of exit polls is worthwhile.