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After consecutive road wins at Colgate and Cornell last weekend, the Crimson (10-5-2, 7-2-2 ECAC) sits at No. 7 in the polls??its highest placement since the beginning of the season...
...report obtained by the New York Times on Friday, officials with the National Election Pool (NEP)—the group in charge of administering the exit polls??attributed the inaccurate predictions to factors outside of their control. The NEP officials said that in some cases, pollsters were unable to get close enough to talk to voters, and that in several precincts, Democrats were more willing to talk to surveyors than Republicans, resulting in numbers that favored a Kerry...
That’s because exit polls??data taken from interviews with voters as they left the voting booths—erroneously calculated that Kerry would sweep up enough electoral votes to beat President Bush and win the presidency...
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...
Hillygus said that what her students learned in the classroom—such as the disconnect between actual results and exit polls??helped them interpret yesterday’s election results...