Palestinian Exit Polls
Wednesday’s Palestinian elections once again highlight the shortcomings of exit polls as a tool for projecting election results. One of the manyRead More…
Category: Exit Polls
Election Results and Lessons
One lesson for MP is to allow for more blogging time on the day after an election. But on the theory that a little late is better than never, hRead More…
No Exit
National Journal’s free Hotline on Call reports that we will have no leaked exit polls to speculate about today in New Jersey, Virginia and CaliforniaRead More…
A Growing Politicization
In the context of the exit poll debate last year, MP pointed to a Pew Research Center study showing that Republicans perceived greater bias in news mRead More…
USCV vs. USCV
Back to exit polls for a moment. Bruce O’Dell, the founding Vice President of U.S. Count Votes (USCV), the organization that has been arguing that tRead More…
AAPOR Remainders
Some additional items of interest from the AAPOR conference
Peter Coy of Businessweek was also on hand and filed some commentary. One point he eRead More…
AAPOR: Exit Poll Presentation
Unfortunately, the sleep deprivation experiment that was my AAPOR conference experience finally caught up with me Saturday night. So this may bRead More…
On “Smackdowns” and Fraud
The big news at the newly minted Huffington Post is that two of its "celebrity" bloggers have taken up the exit-polls-as-evidence-of-vote-frRead More…
The Liddle Model That Could
Regular readers of this blog may know her as “Febble,” the diarist from DailyKos. Her real name is Elizabeth Liddle, a 50-something mother and Read More…
What the USCV Report Doesn’t Say (Part II)
Mea Culpa Update – In Part I of this series I erred in describing an artifact in the data tabulation provided in the report provided by Edison ResearRead More…