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Exit polling - surveying people leaving voting locations about the ballots they cast - debuted in the 1960s, as news organizations (and on a small scale, candidates) sought to gather demographic data about voters that could be used to predict election results. Legendary polling pioneer Warren Mitofsky conducted the first major exit...
An embarrassing computer glitch in 2002 sealed the consortium's fate; it was shuttered soon after and replaced by a different set of pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on...
The current exit poll system uses a careful methodology that includes sampling voters during various periods of the day (certain demographic groups tend to vote at different times) and conducting telephone surveys of those who voted early or by absentee ballots. The pollsters for this year's election also say...
Actual projections are made by "decision desks" at the networks - small groups of journalists and polling experts who use exit data and actual returns to decide when to announce winners. So even though all the networks have access to the same exit poll data, they often don't broadcast projections...
The Democratic nominee spent the last full day of his presidential campaign in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia-all three of them states that George W. Bush won four years ago and Obama is either tied or leading in. "I have one word for you-tomorrow. We are one day...