Exit Poll in Arizona showed Cruz and Sanders leading

[LiberalArkie]

Exit polls conducted by The Daily Courier on Tuesday, March 22, showed Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas leading businessman Donald Trump 50 percent to 33 percent overall, with Ohio Gov. John Kasich garnering just 8 percent among voters polled.

The remaining 9 percent were what might best be described as “protest votes” for candidates such as former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who had already dropped out of the Republican race for president.


Cruz was essentially in a tie with Trump in Prescott. However, in Prescott Valley, an exit poll suggested that Cruz was well ahead of Trump, by more than a 2-to-1 margin, according to more exit polls during Tuesday’s Presidential Preference Election.

Democrats in both locations were trending much more strongly for Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont than former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; 62 percent of respondents favored Sanders with just 37 percent voting for Clinton.

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http://dcourier.com/news/2016/mar/22/courier-exit-polling-shows-cruz-leading-prescott-p/

[CoffeeCat]

1. So the exit polls were only off by about 25 points for Sanders?

Can a person die from utter disgust?

[LiberalArkie]

8. Results show that Yavapai County went for Trump and Clinton But

exit polls reflect the exact opposite.

[bkkyosemite]

2. I believe Bernie was cheated out of another state. Also

just saw a poll on MSNBC that said will you plan on voting for Hillary for President in 2016. The poll shows 84% saying no at 116,000 and yes at 19,000. I wonder if this is a look into the future.

[LiberalElite]

14. now it's

117,000 no
19,000 yes
4024 maybe

[cantbeserious]

17. ^^^ This ^^^

eom

[MattP]

3. so a one county poll in a 39000 person county means Bernie won Prescott with 39000 people and.....

so he won a small county

[LiberalArkie]

10. Actually the county is 211,000 the city is 39,000. Prescott is the county seat.

[snot]

4. Much as I appreciate this kind of news,

it sounds like they're only talking about 2 locations. That said, I was unable to open the link to check . . . my internet acting funky today . . .

[BeyondGeography]

5. Early vote is where he lost big

Same thing happpened to Obama in 2008. She's very well known, and he wasn't at the time many people voted.

[GoneFishin]

6. I wish I was surprised. I am not. There is a reason why people don't trust Hillary.

[MattP]

7. IT WAS ONE COUNTY 39000 PEOPLE WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE READ THE ARTICLE

[stranger81]

9. You are posting in the Bernie Sanders group.

You might want to take your shouting act somewhere else.

[MattP]

11. false is false just like when people slime Bernie one county exit polls are not the state

This just makes us look bad

[stranger81]

16. There is nothing false about the OP, which never claimed to be about the entire state of Arizona.

Exit poll IN Arizona, not "for the whole state of Arizona."

Reading comprehension. It matters. So does the fact that this is a protected group, which I hope you will eventually be courteous enough to see your way out of.

[bernbabe]

21. I think he's actually a Bernie person

He is just trying to point out that this is only two small places. I kind of have to agree that it is not representative, especially when you consider early voting went to Hillary, which is not measured in exit polls.

[stranger81]

22. He can point that out without calling Bernie supporters children, then.

If people in this group wanted those kind of insults, they are plentiful and readily available in GDP or the HRC group.

[Bob_Roony]

12. As I said

It is the early voting. In states where early voting is allowed far ahead without an excuse Clinton wins. Name recognition. People vote before Bernie's start airing ads. ground work etc..

Check this

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/seth-abramson/sanders-currently-winning-democratic-primary-race-ill-prove-to-you_b_9528076.html

[DhhD]

25. Only if there had of been early Ads about raising Social Security and keeping Medicare.

Wait, I remember, that the Clinton's lied about Sanders removing Medicare.

Surly the Democratic delegates are paying attention to the plight of older voters.

[MattP]

13. Winning the next 4 in a row is going to be good, and being positive is better than crying about AZ

[farleftlib]

15. Bull

Everything about AZ screams election fraud and voter suppression. Every vote counts.

Bernie needs to hire someone to contest this. His supporters and donors are paying for more than wishful thinking.

[DhhD]

26. It could happen in New Mexico too. Have Ads on raising Social Security and

strengthening Medicare, been playing during early voting there?

[Land of Enchantment]

29. No television ads running here in NM

our primary is June 7th, same as CA, MT, NJ, ND and SD. I'm not real optimistic because in our last primary (top of ticket for governor) we had a 20% turnout and the Dems nominated the worst candidate EVER, Gary King, who was crushed by the evil Suzanna Martinez. UGH.

Santa Fe and Northern NM are the progressive areas and ABQ and south and east we call 'Little Texas', conservative Dems.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. STOP accepting election fraud and voter suppression! It's people like you who accept whatever TPTB

dishes out who have helped turn our election system on its head! ELECTION FRAUD AND VOTER SUPPRESSION IS WRONG AND ILLEGAL.

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[Else You Are Mad]

18. If it were one or two instances...

of election fraud, I would say its a coincidence. But there are WAY too many instances to call it anything but intentional. I am not suggesting who was the mastermind behind it, but it needs to be investigated and fixed. This isn't a "nothing to see here folks" as Hillary's camp is saying, because this could ruin whoever the candidate in the GE.

But, since the media darling candidates won, the media will probably just ignore or shrug off as not significant this like everything else that hurts either Trump or Clinton.

[lmbradford]

19. Count the provisional ballots

All of the voters should be heard. There are thousands of irregularities. Count the votes!!!

[eridani]

23. Early voting by mail is not counted in exit polls n/t

[paulthompson]

24. Dubious

I'm a Sanders supporter, but I don't think this exit poll means much. It only covered the towns of Prescott and Prescott Valley, which together make up about 80,000 people. But the whole county has over 200,000 people. So you can't really compare the exit poll results with the county results, because they could be very different, especially since there's often a big town vs. countryside difference in voter preferences. Plus, we know almot nothing about this exit poll, which only gets one paragraph in one article in a small town newspaper. Chances are it had a very small sample size.

I think more telling is some incomplete data I saw that showed that with about 20% of the voters on election day across all of Arizona, Sanders had 50% and Clinton had 50%. Whereas Clinton did much better with early voting. That says to me that if more of the provisional ballots in Arizona are counted, and there's a lot of them due to all the trouble, Clinton's lead should narrow and Sanders may pick up some more delegates.

[BillZBubb]

27. Exit polls just aren't very accurate. Plus this is just for a limited area.

[Half-Century Man]

30. Exit polls are the standard measurement for verifing elections world wide.

The members of the United Nations(including US) have condemned elections based on them.

They became inaccurate within the United States after 2000, with the introduction of electronic voting machines and electronic vote counting machines.

[BillZBubb]

31. For whatever reason, exit polls in the US don't predict outcomes very reliably.

Perhaps it is because of fraud and election rigging, or people just not being straightforward on their choices.

[Half-Century Man]

32. They did until electronic voting. nt