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TheFrenchRazor

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32. i personally remember in 2000 the pundits talking about how accurate exit polls "used to be,"
Thu Dec 14, 2017, 03:15 AM
Dec 2017

and wondering what went wrong this time (and i think the deviations in 2000 were much less than they are now). there seemed to be a lot of agreement then these polls had previously been very accurate. now the conventional wisdom is apparently that they're "always" wrong.

Yes, they were. I took a Democratic Development course from Stanford and octoberlib Dec 2017 #1
Exactly. Sorry to see RAchel buying into this. She literally said they are always wrong and Amaryllis Dec 2017 #2
That's just lazy. Do some research, Rachel octoberlib Dec 2017 #4
It's not even logical to not ask the question why? Amaryllis Dec 2017 #7
All journalists ( with the exception of people like Greg Palast) octoberlib Dec 2017 #9
brad blog is good too questionseverything Dec 2017 #17
Octoberlib, could the extreme polarization and Hortensis Dec 2017 #38
I think its entirely possible. I thought one octoberlib Dec 2017 #39
Sounds like a very interesting course. Hortensis Dec 2017 #40
I took it in a MOOC! It was offered on Coursera. octoberlib Dec 2017 #41
Oh, thanks, Octoberlib. I'll go check it out. Hortensis Dec 2017 #44
Rachel is buyin into a hoax. triron Dec 2017 #3
all depends upon whose dogma you choose to believe: Gabi Hayes Dec 2017 #8
Yep. Final results not matching exit polls TDale313 Dec 2017 #6
Jimmy Carter has said that many times KelleyKramer Dec 2017 #24
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
Can you explain this flamingdem Dec 2017 #11
ei peops sued and won to get the digital images preserved,then late last night al supremes overturne questionseverything Dec 2017 #12
Thanks. This issue makes my blood boil flamingdem Dec 2017 #14
me too..i don't think hrc actually lost either wisconsin or michigan questionseverything Dec 2017 #16
I think it was stolen flamingdem Dec 2017 #18
Or PA; she didnt lose that either. Amaryllis Dec 2017 #28
She underperformed Josh Shapiro (D) DeminPennswoods Dec 2017 #34
info in the following op too questionseverything Dec 2017 #13
More info RandomAccess Dec 2017 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author diva77 Dec 2017 #21
I think most media people do not understand election integrity. It takes about 3 months to really diva77 Dec 2017 #20
you would thinks would of used the repubs nontransparency an issue questionseverything Dec 2017 #29
I've been saying this for years malaise Dec 2017 #19
In Germany, we treat exit polls almost like preliminary results Ezior Dec 2017 #22
you said it. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2017 #37
Rachel finally got something correct Awsi Dooger Dec 2017 #23
yah, the Election Reform forum was once filled with great discussions diva77 Dec 2017 #30
Agree! No one seems to do a scientific, logical, exam on why suddenly exit polls are always wrong. UCmeNdc Dec 2017 #25
Do you have data to demonstrate this claim? Loki Liesmith Dec 2017 #26
i personally remember in 2000 the pundits talking about how accurate exit polls "used to be," TheFrenchRazor Dec 2017 #32
Thats not data Lee-Lee Dec 2017 #42
Exit polls for so long were so reliable that they PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #27
agreed, except you forgot election hacking as an explanation for the skewed exit polls. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2017 #36
started in 2000 i think, and they've been "wrong" ever since. nt TheFrenchRazor Dec 2017 #31
Results depend on when and where the exit polling is done DeminPennswoods Dec 2017 #33
how come they knew how to do it 20 years ago, but now it's a very inexact, "evolving" science, TheFrenchRazor Dec 2017 #35
Maybe they were not as good as everyone thinks they were two decades ago Lee-Lee Dec 2017 #43
20 years ago computers, internet, social media, cell DeminPennswoods Dec 2017 #45
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