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In reply to the discussion: Rachel just said exit polls always wrong & tend to favor Dems. They didn't start being wrong until [View all]TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)31. started in 2000 i think, and they've been "wrong" ever since. nt
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Rachel just said exit polls always wrong & tend to favor Dems. They didn't start being wrong until [View all]
Amaryllis
Dec 2017
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Exactly. Sorry to see RAchel buying into this. She literally said they are always wrong and
Amaryllis
Dec 2017
#2
Too bad Rachel made such an assumption without documentation to back her statement
diva77
Dec 2017
#5
a lady on rachel's show just mentioned the lawsuit we lost last night about
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#10
ei peops sued and won to get the digital images preserved,then late last night al supremes overturne
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#12
me too..i don't think hrc actually lost either wisconsin or michigan
questionseverything
Dec 2017
#16
I think most media people do not understand election integrity. It takes about 3 months to really
diva77
Dec 2017
#20
Agree! No one seems to do a scientific, logical, exam on why suddenly exit polls are always wrong.
UCmeNdc
Dec 2017
#25
i personally remember in 2000 the pundits talking about how accurate exit polls "used to be,"
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#32
agreed, except you forgot election hacking as an explanation for the skewed exit polls. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#36
how come they knew how to do it 20 years ago, but now it's a very inexact, "evolving" science,
TheFrenchRazor
Dec 2017
#35