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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: 5 Primaries: Exit Poll Discrepancies and Win Probabilities [View all]MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)23. You are wrong.
Exit polls never have been and never will be an accurate predicter of an election. UN Election watchers only use the when things turn out wildly off and they are still not enough of a predicter without further evidence.
After 2000 an industry grew up to bilk people out of their money over "black box voting". The entire movement developed into nothing more than a greedy money snatching scam.
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My candidate? You actually came out as a Hillary supporter and I missed it? Crap!
merrily
Mar 2016
#56
of course not, I don't hate Hillary enough and am not a narcissistic purist
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#60
let us just say that it is very little surprise to see the people who have hated Obama
geek tragedy
Mar 2016
#68
Still flailing! Your posts are full of the hate word, but devoid of anything that applies to me.
merrily
Mar 2016
#69
If the shoe was on the other foot I can almost garantee you MaggieD would be having
bkkyosemite
Mar 2016
#10
Paper Ballots that are counted with all sides attending...this election is rigged and I am
bkkyosemite
Mar 2016
#8
Oh good, I was wondering when this embarrassment as an analyst would show up again
Godhumor
Mar 2016
#9
Throw in the fact the author being cited was permanently banned for being a disruptor./nt
DemocratSinceBirth
Mar 2016
#42
I also imagine that not every voter completes the exit poll as well. I mean, is it required?
CalvinballPro
Mar 2016
#21
I suspect that the results were close to the Sanders internals or the campaign would
Lucinda
Mar 2016
#19
Clue? it was Bill, in the school yard, with the bullhorn. he did it all himself nt
msongs
Mar 2016
#28
It's just pathetic that we live in a country where you can't either trust or verify the vote!!!!!!
highprincipleswork
Mar 2016
#29
lol! He's still at it with this nonsense! I am 99.9869465% sure this guy is nuts.
tritsofme
Mar 2016
#32