Exit Polling? Was anyone here asked to participate?

[peabody71]

I've heard alot about exit polling data for this election. Fox especially seemed to be promoting it heavily.
Does anyone from California know of any polling taking place?

[noiretextatique]

1. NO and no one else i know either eom

[peabody71]

2. But they claim to know how and why you voted?

I smell an 80ft rat.

[noiretextatique]

3. kick

:kick: i'd love to know if anyone here participated...doubt it.

[Scairp]

4. Are you kidding?

At my lil ole polling place at the police station? I got there at prime time for people getting off work to go vote. Guess how many people were there? Give up? Three. Four if you count the two-year-old on his mother's hip. His mother was the one voting, although looking at the result it would seem that the 2 year olds were really the ones in charge.

[punpirate]

5. Details here....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/recallexitpoll.html

Hired agencies to do it, which means paid interviewers, rather than volunteers.

Cheers.

[maggrwaggr]

6. I don't buy it

I live in California and I just don't know anyone who voted for Arnold and who didn't think that it was a joke.

I don't know of anyone who was "exit-polled".

I'm beginning to completely distrust everything I used to take for granted. We all are told Arnold won, we don't question it.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

9. I live in California and I agree completely

I can say that almost everyone thought the idea of Ahhnold was a joke.

On the eve of the election I went to eat at Toi Restaurant.
The polls were open late and I was walking down Sunset Blvd with friends(across from the polling place), people were openly shouting things like "Gropenator" and other Ahhnold jokes.
Seemed like it was nearly unanimous
people were laughing--
there was a long line down the sidewalk at the polls.

Also, earlier in the day when I had voted at my polling place--it seemed that that the overall sentiment was "NO" on the recall from everyone I talked to.

I truly don't believe that Ahnold won even though we are told he did.
It just seems too damn strange for me to believe.

They have likely rigged the system, and guess what that means folks?
4 more agonizing years of *

Check out Conan Obrien every night
for the funniest Ahhnold jokes you have ever seen!!!

[HitmanLV]

10. where are you in Cali?

I ask cause the phenomena you mentioned may be true in some cities (San Fran in particular), but it wouldn't reflect the sentiment of the entire state.

I lived in nyc for years and in 1994, everyone was supporting Cuomo. It wasn't even close.

Pataki has been Governor 9 years now....

This was a loss, plain and simple. You can't credibly fake 20 point margins in the vote tally.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

11. I live in the Hollywood area

I just found out that Los Angeles county (where Ahhnold lives --)and ALL counties in the Bay area voted against the recall. --maybe that's just because they were keeping an eye on things at the polls a bit better and they couldn't rig it as easily.

[HitmanLV]

13. more likely....

...hollywood and LA is very heavily democratic and has many many more liberal voters.

The poll rigging thingy just isn't credible, sorry.

[HitmanLV]

7. I have voted for 17 years, and....

...was only exit polled once, by phone, last year.

The polls are very scientifically done by actuaries, eggheads and the like. They interview maybe 10,000 people, and refine the numbers down to only about 4000 to come to the poll results.

The polls were very accurate in Cali, calling every race and proposition accurately. The margin deviated at most by only 3.6%, but with a 20 point spread, it didn't matter.

I posted some fairly detailed info on the polls and who conducted them last night. Regardless of what some may want to think, they are intended only to predict winners and show trends, not to push a particular candidate.

[Sapphocrat]

8. No exit polling here, but...

...my mom got a call from one of the big survey orgs (she can't remember which one) a few days before the election. (A first!)

That's as close as it got here. Not an exit-poller within a mile of my polling place. Last time I was approached was a good 10 years ago.

[abbyhoffman]

12. no

but if I was I would lie to them

[Junkdrawer]

14. I asked this Wednesday...

Has anyone here EVER been exit polled?

Only partial 'yes' was from a poster who was busy telling everyone Arnold won fair-and-square.

[noiretextatique]

15. kick

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