Early Exit Poll Estimates:

[Zynx]

They won't be any good just as they haven't been all season. I could pull numbers straight out of my ass and they would be more accurate.

Remember, anytime you are about to fall for them, remember:

[Zynx]

1. Shame on you guys. I can't believe that got over 70 views in three minutes.

[mcctatas]

3. Oh come on...

you can't expect us not to look...
someone might have missed a good opportunity to bash a supporter from the other side;)

[Alhena]

4. It won't happen again- welcome to ignore

[Umbram]

6. I was just coming in to make fun of you.

Now that I see I've been trapped, I'm chewing off my own arm so I can hit the back button with my bloody stump and then running away.

[democrattotheend]

2. Anything you hear about exit polls before 5 PM is total BS

People who work with exit poll data are locked in a room without cell phones until 5 PM. This policy was instituted in 2006 after early, unweighted (and thus incorrect) exit poll results were leaked showing Kerry winning. So anything you hear before 5 PM, other than anecdotal evidence (heavy turnout at a predominantly black precinct, people you know who broke for Clinton at the last minute, etc) is pure BS.

Someone who claimed to have early exit poll data before 5 PM on March 11 claimed clinton was going to win Mississippi. Just an example of why anything you hear before 5 is BS.

[Tropics_Dude83]

5. Exactly right

And even the exit poll data horserace numbers that we see after 5 p.m. aren't neccessasrily accurate. We saw it in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Just take the exit poll data that the cable news networks actually release on air seriously and the AP write-up. The horserace numbers are bound to be bogus.

[Leocattiglio]

7. Drudge was our main source of exit poll numbers in PA

sadly. And he just made the numbers up.

[MadBadger]

8. Serious Question:

How do exit polls figure in early voting? I've never really understood how exactly they can do that.

[GoesTo11]

9. Learned my lesson. Not going to look at them until polls closed.

They are so far off and there are so many different results that you just get one person's spin or another until the polls close. Not worth the distraction.