2014 exit polls?

[greenforest32]

Does anyone know how exit polls will be handled this year?

Will every state with at least a major race like Governor (California) or Senator (North Carolina) have one or only states with both (Illinois)?

Will any states be dropped like what happened in 2012?

[Adam Griffin]

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So far, I have confirmed Texas, Florida. I've contacted the head of Edison Research and will see if I get a response on the exact states.

[Eraserhead]

I imagine almost every state with a Governor or U.S. Senate race will have one. There'll also be a National U.S. House Exit Poll, which is where we'll get Obama's approval numbers and such from.

[greenforest32]

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So far, I have confirmed Texas, Florida. I've contacted the head of Edison Research and will see if I get a response on the exact states.

I imagine almost every state with a Governor or U.S. Senate race will have one. There'll also be a National U.S. House Exit Poll, which is where we'll get Obama's approval numbers and such from.

Thanks. And, yeah, that wording in bold makes it sound like some states will be skipped. Guess we'll find out soon.

[Adam Griffin]

I got an idea: to check NBC's election site just now to see if they had any information or indicators. Sure enough, they already have their results by state pages up, and have select states listed with an "exit poll" header at the bottom of the page, while others do not have this. This tells us which states will have exit polling.

We'll have exit polling in 27 states:

Alaska
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
New Hampshire
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Texas
Virginia
West Virginia
Wisconsin

[Sbane]

No Massachusetts or Connecticut exit polls? Ugh. And yet they are doing Mississippi. Perfect.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Unfortunately, no exit polls for Massachusetts, Arizona, Hawaii, or Connecticut. But every other Senate/Gubernatorial race that I don't have rated as Safe or Strong Lean (Likely) is thankfully included.

[greenforest32]

No Massachusetts or Connecticut exit polls? Ugh. And yet they are doing Mississippi. Perfect.

Arizona, New Mexico, and Maryland would have been interesting too. You'd figure the least we could get is exit polling in every state if election spending is reaching $4-6 billion every two years.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

No Massachusetts or Connecticut exit polls? Ugh. And yet they are doing Mississippi. Perfect.

Arizona, New Mexico, and Maryland would have been interesting too. You'd figure the least we could get is exit polling in every state if election spending is reaching $4-6 billion every two years.

And every state gets the generic ballot/Obama Approval etc. questions, so why not just ask about the horseraces as well? But whatever.

[Lief 🗽]

No MA, CT, MD, RI? But SC and MS?

Junk exit polls!

[Eraserhead]

I wouldn't mind seeing a New Jersey one either. They definitely left out a few weird ones.

[Tender Branson]

Yeah, leaving out CT and MA are major flops.

And they are doing MS, SC and CA instead ...

[ElectionsGuy]

Looks good (a lot better than 2012, when they completely ignored all red states). I'll be looking forward to Florida and Texas, that's for sure.

[Phony Moderate]

Looks good (a lot better than 2012, when they completely ignored all red states). I'll be looking forward to Florida and Texas, that's for sure.

Better to ignore red states than to ignore states with competitive races...

[ElectionsGuy]

Looks good (a lot better than 2012, when they completely ignored all red states). I'll be looking forward to Florida and Texas, that's for sure.

Better to ignore red states than to ignore states with competitive races...

Yeah, except demographically important states like Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina were ignored. Not to mention most noncompetitive blue states were polled (MA, IL, CT, VT, NY, NJ, IL, CA, and WA were all polled despite non-competitiveness.

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Looks good (a lot better than 2012, when they completely ignored all red states). I'll be looking forward to Florida and Texas, that's for sure.

Better to ignore red states than to ignore states with competitive races...

Yeah, except demographically important states like Georgia, Texas, and South Carolina were ignored. Not to mention most noncompetitive blue states were polled (MA, IL, CT, VT, NY, NJ, IL, CA, and WA were all polled despite non-competitiveness.

MA had a competitive senate race....

I wouldn't mind seeing a New Jersey one either. They definitely left out a few weird ones.

Why? The only thing interesting there is the third district.

[KCDem]

So they're doing a exit poll in South Carolina, but not Massachusetts? Junk choices!

[New_Conservative]

WBZ (Boston's CBS affiliate) is doing an exit poll for Massachusetts

[Oregreen]

So they're doing a exit poll in South Carolina, but not Massachusetts? Junk choices!

LOL!

Well, apparently they weren't handled well. I still don't understand why they were so flawed.