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...report stressed that in the end, exit polls achieved what they were designed to do: assist news networks in deciding which states to color red and blue in the race for electoral votes...
Patterson pointed to the internet as a major factor in causing the numbers confusion, specifically weblogs, or “blogs,” that fed early exit poll data to millions of people without warning viewers of the polls’ limitations. Beginning at noon on Election Day, numbers from one-third of the precincts were leaked to blogs...
...don’t think exit polls failed,” Patterson said. “I think the bloggers misused them...
...Partial exit poll results are always unreliable,” said Schneider...
Since 1980, exit polls have been the primary means of predicting election winners. But after the 2000 election, when exit polls caused the media to vacillate between calling Florida for President Bush, or for former Vice President Al Gore ’69, networks have been more cautious about declaring the winner based on only exit poll results...