Sentences with phrase «exit polls did»

In the 2006 congressional elections, exit polls didn't address the question of education at all.

The exit poll didn't expect that, so here at least they are outperforming it.

Not exact matches

The exit polls, reported by CNN, also showed that 54 % of people who went to the polls Tuesday approve of the job President Obama is doing.

Cohn argues that it's difficult for exit polls to be accurate because pollers don't typically ask a respondent's race, age or income — though they do estimate the former two — making it difficult to control for these factors when using such surveys to predict a result.

Nice try on the Obama thing... except those same exit polls from»08 clearly showed that Obama did far better than McCain with the more educated voters.

As a consequence (so say the exit polls), something like two - thirds of those voting for Le Pen did so because they enthusiastically support her views on these subjects.

Wrexham - the Welsh polling had shown Labour strengthening in the principality after a rocky start; instead the exit poll has shown the Tories doing far better in Wales than in England.

The Conservative Party looks set to do even better than the surprising exit polls predicted, but the real glory in this election lies with the small parties.

«For the exit poll seat projections to be right, Labour had to be wiped out in Scotland, the Liberal Democrats would have to be wiped out in their Tory marginals and we would have to done really badly in the English marginals,» the campaign aide recalled.

As an example we can take the exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.

Within hours — minutes even — of the announcement of the shock BBC exit poll at 10 pm on May 7, Ed Miliband was being informed in no uncertain terms why he had done so badly by an army of observers, critics and supposed party comrades.

In his first major interview since quitting as party leader, Clegg said he initially did not believe the election night exit poll which suggested his party would be cut to 10 MPs.

@Steve Your assumption is correct, the only official US stats are vote totals for a precinct and political party registration (as part of the voter roll, which doesn't have race), so the numbers use exit polls.

It; s not strictly an exit poll actually - it was done after people had voted, but not at the polling station.

All the media sites do their own rollups of the exit poll data, but the dimensions they pick are static.

Party officials were sceptical at the initial exit poll by Mori and NOP, which canvassed more than 16,000 people, saying it did not include the regional swings.

According to its website it carried out polling during the Labour leadership race and I am told it also did a general election exit poll.

Though exit polls found the economy and jobs were the top issues for women voters in 2012, extreme remarks about abortion and women's rights made by Republican candidates and highlighted by Democrats did help drive this demographic away from Mitt Romney and into Obama's camp.

David Cameron's former top spin doctor Sir Craig Oliver said: «The team that's done this exit poll has got it right... in previous elections.

This phenomenon goes back years and affects even the exit polls, as it did once again last week — the Tories won 15 more seats than the exit poll predicted.

In a column for the paper she said she didn't believe the exit poll when it was released at 10 pm on election day.

The joint BBC / ITV / Sky exit poll, taken at dozens of polling stations across the UK, and announced as the real polls closed, predicted a hung Parliament, with the Conservatives just short of an overall majority and the Lib Dems not doing much better than they had in 2005.

I feel great that we had the kind of exit polls that we did,» said Chris Aronson, distribution chief for Fox.

And exit polling and local accounts suggest that the reason he didn't can pretty much be chalked up to conservative angst over the Common Core.