Technical Discussion of Robo-Rasmussen Polls

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Vorlon (and everyone else),

A tangent off of your original post:  

One "the other" website (aka Zogby) I had floated my concerns regarding the media covering exit polls, and how it unfairly influences the Western states with their voting patterns.  While living in Hawaii, this was very obvious as people would stay at home watching the results coming in across the mainland before deciding to go to the polls to vote.

Especially after the fiasco last year with different networks calling Florida for both candidates, I would hope that they learned their lesson for this year.  While I love watching the unfolding election results come in, I would rather have the networks keep their mouths shut about poll figures until all the states had concluded and official results start flowing in.  This would lead to less tainting of the Western votes as well as possibly encourage more people to go to the polls and vote, since more doubt would be introduced on whether the candidate they'd like to see win is doing well or not.

Anyway folks, just a little issue I have with the media.  Debate it if you like.