exit polls

[Stang]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK

Second. And the reason I wished I came across an exit poller
I penciled my sons name in for one of the congrassional seats.

LOL I almost wrote in someone else as well.  

[Shamus]

"shamus" got one vote for county commissioner

shamus

[Thrawn]

The reason why you guys don't "see" any exit pollers, is because they are conducted over the phone.

I was pollster for a market research company during the 2004 elections, we were mostly handling Ohio for a major television network.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Originally posted by Thrawn
The reason why you guys don't "see" any exit pollers, is because they are conducted over the phone.

Well, there's no real chance for error there, is there? Exit polls are one of the biggest jokes of the whole system. The only thing they prove the veracity of is the stupidity of the people who believe them. It never ceases to amaze me how wrong they are, and how people continue to believe them and make excuses for the errors.

[Thrawn]

Originally posted by Captain Virgil Hilts
Well, there's no real chance for error there, is there? Exit polls are one of the biggest jokes of the whole system.

LOLs.  Of course there are chances for error (that's why the margin of error information is included with polling results ,),but they are minimal.  They are still incredibly accurate.  Hell, your government thinks so as well.  Hence they are used in election monitoring all over the world.  But I guess a certain kind of extremist ideologue will strike out at anything that even might suggest that Bush's elections are tainted.  Probably the same kind of person that doesn't think that astronaughts didn't go to the moon.

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Thrawn
The reason why you guys don't "see" any exit pollers, is because they are conducted over the phone.

I was pollster for a market research company during the 2004 elections, we were mostly handling Ohio for a major television network.

Well for that matter.
I've never been called by one either

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

Exit polls are and have been notoriously inaccurate. They wouldn't even be close to the only thing that the government was stupid enough to fall for.

Oh, they've missed by more than the margin of error, and not just when Bush was elected and re-elected either.

[Eagler]

Originally posted by Thrawn
I was pollster for a market research company during the 2004 elections, we were mostly handling Ohio for a major television network.

well that explains this then:
Ohios exit polls overestimated Kerry offical vote by 5.8%
with an 11.7% difference between the exit polls and the actual votes..
poll pdf