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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAP: Exit polls show Putin won
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Hmm, but exit polls don't work here? Just in other countries.
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AP: Exit polls show Putin won (Original Post)
triron
Mar 2018
OP
What's scary is the same the thing is starting to appear in the US with tRumpers.
madinmaryland
Mar 2018
#11
In Russia, if you answer an exit poll incorrectly, you may suddenly disappear........
democratisphere
Mar 2018
#8
dhol82
(9,351 posts)1. Made me laugh!!!!!
Gee, was there ever a question?
bearsfootball516
(6,369 posts)2. I don't think the world needed an exit poll to know Putin won.
davsand
(13,420 posts)3. Would you publicly admit that you didn't vote for the dictator?
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
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)11. What's scary is the same the thing is starting to appear in the US with tRumpers.
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)5. Who would have guessed?
Now that the "election" is over it should be easier for
Vlad to tell his fellow Russians to go F themeslves.
JDC
(10,081 posts)6. I think the "entrance polls" said the same thing...
Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)7. I would gladly...
...tell the poll I voted for Putin. I don't like the taste of poison!
GWC58
(2,678 posts)13. Im sure Trump is thinking
That could be me soon. Maybe even run unopposed. Sorry Donald, thats not going to happen. Ever!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)8. In Russia, if you answer an exit poll incorrectly, you may suddenly disappear........
permanently.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)9. what a surprise
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)10. Helluva cliffhanger
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)12. Bwah HAH!1 - The Onion?!1
mythology
(9,527 posts)14. I should really just have this as cut and paste for these exit poll things
And heres the last nail in the conspiracy-mongers coffin: While exit polls are used to detect potential fraud in some countries, ours arent designed, and arent 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. Theyre 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 thats 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.