#exit polling

Corbin Bolies at The Wrap:

Nearly all of the top broadcast and cable networks will now use the Associated Press’ election data to help call results during the 2026 and 2028 elections, the news wire announced on Wednesday. The move means networks ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN will join Fox News and hundreds of newspapers across the country in using the AP’s data, with each of their respective decision desks breaking down the results independently to call races. Fox News began using the AP’s data in 2017, and its decision desk was under intense scrutiny during the 2020 election for its early — but accurate — call that Joe Biden won Arizona, a swing state, that year. [...]

The networks have now moved away from the research firm Edison Research, which provided election data to the networks as part of the National Election Pool, a consortium formed in 2003 of news organizations. Fox News and the AP both left the consortium in 2017. Edison Research on Wednesday was acquired by SSRS, a polling and research firm. NewsNation, the first cable network to call the election for Trump last year, relied on Decision Desk HQ during the 2024 election, its first as a 24/7 cable news network. It is unclear what MSNBC, which will soon be re-named MS NOW, will use moving forward as it severs from NBC following parent company Versant’s split from Comcast. A network spokesperson did not have an immediate comment.

Do you really have a choice?

Every state has somewhat of a say in who becomes President with the Electoral College. However not every state has a say in who is the nominee of the party.

The way it is now the contenders focus on the early states with few or no campaign stops in the later deciding states. Why? Because the later deciding states do not matter. They are not important, yet.

The democrats are always crying about…

LIMA, Peru | Exit polling indicates Peruvians vote to fight corruption

LIMA, Peru— Peruvian voters agreed to take on corruption Sunday, according to exit polls, as the South American nation struggles to end a scourge that has landed lawmakers, judges and even former presidents behind bars.

Voters approved three of four questions on a referendum ballot that included measures to prohibit legislators from immediate re-election, create stricter campaign finance rules…

Midterm exit polls show majorities want POTUS Trump’s border wall

(National Sentinel) Build It: In politics, there are very few lay-ups when it comes to finding issues most Americans agree on, but POTUS Donald Trump hit upon one during his 2016 campaign: Building a “big, beautiful wall” along the U.S. border with Mexico to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking.

And according to midterm exit polling, it’s still a political lay-up.

Exit polling…

Here’s what I am doing on Election Day

My granddaughter likely never will ask me this question: Grandpa, what did you do on Election Day 2014?

But if she did, I would have something rather interesting to tell her.

I would tell little Emma I worked all day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. as an exit pollster.

My job, which I’m doing for a public opinion research firm, is to interview voters as they exit the polling place at Randall County’s…

The news keeps going on about voting demographics and they're taking it so seriously, and I'm just wondering how much of what they're taking so seriously is even true.

Then again, maybe it's only an illusion that our votes are private. How do we really even know?