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How the exit polls will work in a pandemic
WJCL ^ | 11/2/2020 | Jennifer Agiesta, CNN

Posted on 11/03/2020 8:10:40 AM PST by marcusmaximus

News media and election watchers have long relied on exit polling to tell them who voted and why they support their chosen candidate on election night, and despite the unprecedented challenges 2020 has presented, this year will be no different.

Exit polling traditionally involves interviews with a randomly selected sample of voters conducted as those voters leave their polling places. Unlike preelection polling, where voters can be identified using only screening questions or a history of voting on a voter file, meeting voters where they are ensures that those included in the survey have actually cast their ballots.

Advertisement But carrying out a poll exclusively that way during a pandemic, when more than 90 million have already cast their ballots, would not be a representative measure of the full electorate.

To make the 2020 survey more representative, Edison Research has made modifications to the methodology it uses to carry out the exit poll for the National Election Pool, a news consortium made up of CNN, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at wjcl.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drudge; exitpolls
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To: BenLurkin

Yes. The cops have already tear gassed and hauled BLMs off to jail in Graham NC


21 posted on 11/03/2020 8:36:20 AM PST by BigEdLB (BigedLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: marcusmaximus

The Fake News media will use any method through out the day to
depress Trump voters from voting.
Do not fall for their fake news.
SURGE THE POLLS.


22 posted on 11/03/2020 8:36:47 AM PST by tennmountainman (TThe Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: circlecity

Can believe anyone on the right is even checking out Drudge anymore.


23 posted on 11/03/2020 8:37:03 AM PST by circlecity
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To: marcusmaximus

If you’ve voted, exit polls are meaningless.

If you haven’t voted...then you need to get your ass up and out to the polls.

Exit polls are stupid.


24 posted on 11/03/2020 8:40:28 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

What Pandemic?


25 posted on 11/03/2020 8:40:37 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: Vermont Lt

Exit polls are designed to suppress mountain and western time zone Republican turnout.

They are evil.


26 posted on 11/03/2020 8:46:38 AM PST by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman. Pronounced: Bye Done.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Fake polls conducted by fake news organizations.


27 posted on 11/03/2020 8:51:13 AM PST by CaliGangsta
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To: marcusmaximus

Local News was at my polling place (where I used to work as a presiding judge several years ago). A friend told me they had problems with the poll pads (Ipads) syncing up this morning and had a line out the door and up the street, but they got it straightened out. The local news wasn’t interviewing anyone that I could see, just getting footage of people coming and going. Polling location wasn’t busy when I went (us retirees go before the lunch hour).


28 posted on 11/03/2020 8:51:56 AM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: AU72

Karl Rove - every time he is on FOX and pulls out his white board, I make a quick exit.


29 posted on 11/03/2020 8:53:30 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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exit polls are in urban areas. The legacy media ignores rural.

There are games being playing in philidelphia. Illegal signs posted at doors of polling stations and ‘voter guides’ being handed out INSIDE poling stations. Poll watchers being turned away.


30 posted on 11/03/2020 8:54:34 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.tand http://www.house.gov)
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To: Republican Wildcat

yep-do NOT PAY ATTENTION TO EXIT POLLS-PASS THE WORD


31 posted on 11/03/2020 8:56:27 AM PST by TECTopcat (e)
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To: marcusmaximus

What is a Drudge?


32 posted on 11/03/2020 9:04:13 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: marcusmaximus

I go by this:

“DTTTFMM!”

(Don’t talk to the f-——g mainstream media)


33 posted on 11/03/2020 9:08:50 AM PST by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: cgbg

Didn’t we learn that lesson in 2000?


34 posted on 11/03/2020 9:40:46 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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