{"id":15302,"date":"2008-04-22T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/15302.html"},"modified":"2008-04-22T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T23:18:02","slug":"the-generally-unreliable-exit-polls-are-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-generally-unreliable-exit-polls-are-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The generally unreliable exit polls are available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early exit polls have not only been wrong throughout the Democratic primaries and caucuses, they&#8217;ve also frequently been wrong in Barack Obama&#8217;s favor. Something to keep in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, there&#8217;s an appetite for the data &#8212; what else are people going to do while waiting for results? &#8212; so here are the numbers that are bouncing around.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">Drudge<\/a>, the 5 p.m. numbers, Clinton&#8217;s up by four, 52% to 48%.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignspot.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YjhlYzZiYjRhNDI0YTMwYzAxMTQ0NWNhNTQyODc4ZGE=\">National Review<\/a>, Obama&#8217;s up by five, 52% to 47%.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing like a little contradiction to make everyone especially confused.<\/p>\n<p>As Josh Marshall <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/190637.php\">put it<\/a>, &#8220;And to be clear, when I say take them with a grain of salt, I don&#8217;t mean that in the garden variety, being responsible, &#8216;we don&#8217;t know for sure yet&#8217; kind of way. I really mean that these early unweighted numbers have routinely been way, way off.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early exit polls have not only been wrong throughout the Democratic primaries and caucuses, they&#8217;ve also frequently been wrong in Barack Obama&#8217;s favor. Something to keep in mind. Nevertheless, there&#8217;s an appetite for the data &#8212; what else are people going to do while waiting for results? &#8212; so here are the numbers that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}