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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-06-06 06:59 PM
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140. My bad, I guess.
I thought the exit polls were supposed to capture the vote, among other things in the demographic data. Take a snapshot, so to speak, of the people who went to the polls to vote.

Wrong theory, the exit polls are supposed to take into account, somehow, how the media will respond and haw the courts will rule. Hence the 0.01% win. How can this possibly be relevant? They should have known how the official vote would be counted? Why is this of any concern to pollsters? Why all the spin? How did the tabulation stuff affect the snapshot? It didn't. I really do have quite a different grasp on reality.

It is such a simple concept to me. How, and when, the calls that were made, could have made an impact on the exit poll, is a real mystery to me. Or even that it should have made some kind of impact. Somehow, through some mechanism unknown to me, things in the exit poll, unknown things, change because the media reports on it. It's like a miracle or something.

How does that work exacly?
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