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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]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)38. Octoberlib, could the extreme polarization and
partisanship that have developed compared to some other eras be affecting exit poll accuracy? Such as, for one possible dynamic among others perhaps, embarrassment over some of the bizarre choices it's causing them to make? I.e., causing people to lie or exaggerate more?
I've read that pre-election live polls seriously undercounted the people who went on to vote for Trump, and also those who voted for Roy Moore in the primary, a theory being that some didn't want to publicly admit they were going to.
Might both this and perhaps self image as being political players in a polarized election be changing the kind of answers given in exit polls?
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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