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The practice of exit polling is used extensively by the news media in elections in the United States. Generally speaking these polls are used in state and federal elections. The operation of this practice is to ask citizens exiting polling places how they voted. People often do not want to waste their time in answering the questions of news reporters. When they do, however, it provides voting data to allow the news media to make projections on election winners and losers. Here is an example. In a national election there are places where a political party has many registered voters and has historically, for example, voted for Democrats. If based on the data received in exit polling, respondents inform reporters that they have voted for Republican candidates, instead of Democrats, this unusual voting pattern may project that Republicans are winning a particular election.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoExit polling is a practice by the news media in the US to help project winners and losers in state, local and national elections. The operation consists of having reporters at polling places ask citizens after they have voted to tell them who they voted for. This is a voluntary operation, of course, and if, for example, a heavily dominated voting district of Democrats produces data that reveals many Democrats have voted Republican, this information is "digested" by the news media on their own types of survey analysis and helps them project a winner.
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What is the difference between straw polls and scientific polls?
u r stupid read ur book! loll
What is opposite of entrance?
The word opposite of entrance is Exit
Why surveys and polls are good examples of finding probabilities?
because they can help you find your right answer
Why are multiple-choice questions used in public opinion polls?
its easier to quantify etc
How many syllables does the word exit have?
The word "exit" has two syllables.
What is the name of a survey as people leave the polls is called what.?
They are called exit polls.
What are polls conducted as voters leave selected polling places on Election Day?
exit polls
What do you think about census and exit polls?
dont now or do i
What kind of polls might journalists use to assess how voting has gone during an election?
Exit polls
Where are exit polls conducted?
As citizens leave their election polling places.
How do polling companies perform exit polls?
Polling Companies perform exit polls by going to the Polling Stations and asking the voters after they have placed their vote and are exiting the Polling Station exactly how they voted. Warren Mitofsky is said to be the one that invented the exit poll.
How are political polls taken and used?
Straw polls, telephone polls, online polls, tracking polls, exit polls and expert insights are method of taking political polls. Polls are used to gauge the opinion of the public on specific issues or to measure the general political mood.
What polls ask questions as voters leave the place where they voted?
An Exit poll.
A survey taken as people leave the polls is called a n?
exit poll
What percentage Caucasian vote did Barack Obama get?
According to exit polls, Mr. Obama received 39% (some polls said 40%) of the white vote; this is the same that Bill Clinton got in the 1992 election.
How can the results of exit polls go wrong?
Polls are not scientific and usually are from a small group chosen for the poll. How questions are framed also affect the results. If the company doing the poll they can ask the question to get a particular result. In my opinion we depend too much on polls to make political decisions.
What percentage of Latinos voted for Obama in 2012?
Exit polls indicates the Hispanic favored Obama over Romney by a margin of 71% to 27%.
