Exit Polls

[Sri Anand]

Exit Polls show Obama in Lead , but the same exit polls showed hillary Right on top before primaries started, were there instances in earlier elections where exit polls proved right

[fred rosenberger]

doesn't the term "exit poll" refer to polling people as the exit from voting?

[Pat Farrell]

Originally posted by Raghunandan Mamidala:
Exit Polls show Obama in Lead

Huh? Exit polls are of people exiting the polling places. Can't happen until election day.

Polls are showing Obama in the lead. Perhaps such a big lead that he will win.

But they are not "exit polls"

[Arvind Mahendra]

I think what you might mean is Opinion poll?

[fred rosenberger]

i question the validity of national polls anyway. We don't in this country have a national election for president, but 50 (51?) state elections. It's pretty simple to show that a person can get a minority of the popular vote, but still win the national election. I think it has actually happened (and i don't want to start the whole Bush V. Gore argument).

My point is, anybody having a lead in the national polls is meaningless. We need to know who is leading state by state, so we can to a electoral vote count.

[Pat Farrell]

Originally posted by fred rosenberger:
i question the validity of national polls anyway.
We need to know who is leading state by state, so we can to a electoral vote count.

Mostly because the Media thinks that the viewers are too stupid to understand the state-by-state polls. And state-by-state polls are a lot more expensive to generate.

And a national poll can take the temperature of the country quickly.

RealClearPolitics.com has what you want. And its shows a big landslide for Obmama.

[fred rosenberger]

I like that site. never heard of it before, so thanks!

[Pradeep bhatt]

Originally posted by fred rosenberger:
doesn't the term "exit poll" refer to polling people as the exit from voting?

That is right. I think OP got confused because "exit polls" are making some news in India, as the govt is regulating them.