Accuracy In Exit Polling

By Kleinheider Posted on April 22, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Josh Marshall on the early Pennsylvania exit polling out there:

As you may have noticed Drudge has up what he says are 5 PM exit poll numbers showing Clinton 52%, Obama 48%. I suspect they are ‘accurate’ as far as early, un-weighted exits can be. But let me point out that my recollection is that pretty much all the early and unweighted exits we’ve seen this cycle have turned out to be wrong. And often very wrong. So this has to be taken with a real grain of salt. And that’s assuming they’re not made up entirely.

Race42008 also urges caution.

MORE EXIT POLLING:
Campaign Spot
Pollster
The Associated Press
CBS
CNN

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