CNN Exit Poll: Favorability: Dems 43% Rep 41% !!!!

[pamela]

Sounds promising.



updated to add link: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Where?

And I thought they weren't supposed to be releasing that kind of information until things close down.

[pamela]

11. Nationwide

I'll look for a link but they just had it on. Reps and Dems were tired at 53% unfavorable.

[Uzybone]

12. here

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/category/2010-exit-polls/


– Voters may not be happy with the Democratic Party. But they aren’t too thrilled with the GOP either, according to early exit polls.
Democrats have a 10-point favorability gap: 43 percent of voters have a positive opinion of the party, while 53 percent aren’t thrilled. The Republican Party also gets a thumbs-down from 53 percent of the nation’s voters, with just 41 percent saying they’re happy with the GOP.

[BootinUp]

2. Any state or national total or...?

[HughMoran]

3. In 2004, R's voted later

I don't believe any of these positive indications until the vote counting starts.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Exactly. Too much of a roller coaster ride until the solid numbers come in.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I'm surprised CNN actually broadcast that result.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Please! Don't toy with my emotions like that. I'm very vulnerable today.

:P

[gratuitous]

6. Well, that can't be right

*Buzz* *Click* Variance from accepted narrative! Sterilize! Sterilize! Sterilize!

[HughMoran]

10. It's gratuitous

Last time they did this in 2004, R's rallied people to the polls and won (at least some suggested this sort of scenario.)

[stopbush]

7. Yep. If you discount the entire media-manufactured "enthusiasm gap" bullshit

and look at what's happening based on traditional ways of predicting an election, Ds are in great shape.

[FreeState]

8. Nate Silver: Ten Reasons Why You Should Ignore Exit Polls

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/ten-reasons-why-you-should-ignore-exit.html

1. Exit polls have a much larger intrinsic margin for error than regular polls.
2. Exit polls have consistently overstated the Democratic share of the vote.
3. Exit polls were particularly bad in this year's primaries.
4. Exit polls challenge the definition of a random sample.
5. Democrats may be more likely to participate in exit polls.
6. Exit polls may have problems calibrating results from early voting.
7. Exit polls may also miss late voters.
8. "Leaked" exit poll results may not be the genuine article.
9. A high-turnout election may make demographic weighting difficult.
10. You'll know the actual results soon enough anyway.

[HughMoran]

13. He's 100% correct

We've been fooled before - I smell something fishy...

[barbtries]

9. YESSS!

this is what i want to hear.

[deaniac21]

14. I thought the polls had to be closed before they will release any

exit polling.

[HughMoran]

19. Yes, this is electioneering

shameful if true.

[Blue Owl]

16. THAT's what I'm talkin' about!

n/t

[flamingdem]

17. I saw different numbers nt

[HughMoran]

20. Please enlighten us my friend

Don't tease us!

[flamingdem]

21. Actually those numbers are correct here's a link

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/02/exit-polls-voters-give-low-marks-to-both-parties/

[Vegetarianist]

18. Exit polls aren't reliable, but still, here's the link:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/02/exit-polls-voters-give-low-marks-to-both-parties/

[Jackpine Radical]

24. EXIT polls are reliable.

ELECTIONS aren't reliable.

[Qutzupalotl]

22. And that's not counting the absentee ballots,

which in some areas favor Dems as well.

[Aramchek]

23. cominarayhawwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!

[Quixote1818]

25. k and r