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Looking for Information on Exit Polls for Election Day 2006?
See the Exit Polls: What You Should Know 2006 or the newly revised Exit Poll FAQ, both now on Pollster.com!
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Since the election, I have written quite a bit on exit polls. Although I have learned a lot in that process, my Election Day summary of “what you need to know” about exit polls still holds up well and is a good place to start if you are new to this site.
Here is the complete list of questions:
- What is the difference between "partial" and "final" exit polls? Covers which tabulations were "corrected" to match the actual count and which were not.
- Where can I find the "uncorrected," just-before-poll closing exit poll tabulations?
- Where can I find official methodological information about exit polls?
- What is the margin of error for exit polls?
- Were the exit polls really "wrong?"
- Why were exit polls in Germany & Utah so accurate?
- Have the exit polls been wrong before?
- If not random error, why were they "wrong?"
- So if exit polls have so much error, why do them?
- I heard the exit poll estimates for Hispanic voters have been revised — is that true?
- What is MP‘s reaction to the paper, "The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy," by Steven Freeman? (This post dicusses his first draft at length, this post has Freeman’s response).
You can also see a summary of all posts about exit polls (in reverse chronological order) by clicking this link.
