AP, Fox News launch new exit polling project

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

The Associated Press unveiled a new project Tuesday to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections.

AP VoteCast will combine traditional, probability-based polling with an online, opt-in survey of voters in targeted states. It will measure the preferences and opinions of those who have or will cast ballots in this year’s midterms, and also non-voters about why they chose not to turn out.

The project is being launched in conjunction with Fox News — with both news organizations abandoning the embattled model of in-person exit polling that has dominated election nights for decades.

“It’s sort of been a constant search to get the right approach and the right methodology to get the best results on Election Day,” said David Scott, AP’s deputy managing editor.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/15/associated-press-fox-polling-project-588600

[Squinch]

1. What could go wrong?

[KPN]

2. Oh, so exit polling better matches the

“results”?

Are we being screwed again, today?

[Dave Starsky]

3. Online, opt-in polling?

Da, comrade! I am all for it! I push these buttons, yes?

[scipan]

4. other countries don't have problems with exit polling

why do we?

[MiniMe]

5. Online polling is so accurate

[mahannah]

6. Exit pols are nonsense. Look at the votes.

[lakercub]

7. The exit polling has been fine

it's the actual counted results that have been the problem. Something stinks when the results and the exit polling differ like they have recently in key states/counties.

[KPN]

8. Yup! Ergo Faux News has a new exit polling process -- so the "results" match the polling.