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AP: Exit polls show Putin won (Original Post) triron Mar 2018 OP
Made me laugh!!!!! dhol82 Mar 2018 #1
I don't think the world needed an exit poll to know Putin won. bearsfootball516 Mar 2018 #2
Would you publicly admit that you didn't vote for the dictator? davsand Mar 2018 #3
What's scary is the same the thing is starting to appear in the US with tRumpers. madinmaryland Mar 2018 #11
Yipes shenmue Mar 2018 #4
Who would have guessed? lpbk2713 Mar 2018 #5
I think the "entrance polls" said the same thing... JDC Mar 2018 #6
I would gladly... Mike Nelson Mar 2018 #7
Im sure Trump is thinking GWC58 Mar 2018 #13
In Russia, if you answer an exit poll incorrectly, you may suddenly disappear........ democratisphere Mar 2018 #8
what a surprise Motley13 Mar 2018 #9
Helluva cliffhanger dalton99a Mar 2018 #10
Bwah HAH!1 - The Onion?!1 UTUSN Mar 2018 #12
I should really just have this as cut and paste for these exit poll things mythology Mar 2018 #14

davsand

(13,420 posts)
3. Would you publicly admit that you didn't vote for the dictator?
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 07:37 PM
Mar 2018

Somebody you don't know asks you if you voted for the killer in chief, you can be pretty sure most folks are gonna say yes.

Just sayin.




Laura

lpbk2713

(42,696 posts)
5. Who would have guessed?
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 07:39 PM
Mar 2018



Now that the "election" is over it should be easier for
Vlad to tell his fellow Russians to go F themeslves.

GWC58

(2,678 posts)
13. Im sure Trump is thinking
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 08:48 PM
Mar 2018

“That could be me soon. Maybe even run unopposed.” Sorry Donald, that’s not going to happen. Ever!!

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
14. I should really just have this as cut and paste for these exit poll things
Sun Mar 18, 2018, 09:14 PM
Mar 2018
And here’s the last nail in the conspiracy-mongers’ coffin: While exit polls are used to detect potential fraud in some countries, ours aren’t designed, and aren’t accurate enough, to accomplish that purpose. Lenski, who has conducted exit polls in fragile democracies like Ukraine and Venezuela, explained that there are three crucial differences between their exit polls and our own. Polls designed to detect fraud rely on interviews with many more people at many more polling places, and they use very short questionnaires, often with just one or two questions, whereas ours usually have twenty or more. Shorter questionnaires lead to higher response rates. Higher response rates paired with larger samples result in much smaller margins of error. They’re far more precise. But it costs a lot more to conduct that kind of survey, and the media companies that sponsor our exit polls are only interested in providing fodder for pundits and TV talking heads. All they want to know is which groups came out to vote and why, so that’s what they pay for.


https://www.thenation.com/article/reminder-exit-poll-conspiracy-theories-are-totally-baseless/

Also the Russian "election" was an election where there was functionally one choice on the ballot as Putin had the opposition leaders killed or arrested and thus ineligible to run. Not exactly hard to do a quick exit poll to find out the obvious.
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