Discrepancy in number of people polled...

[shiina]

I've seen two numbers for how many people were polled on election night : 13,047 and 13,660. Which is it?

According to Mitofsky's own report, there are 13,660.
(http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/pdfs/Mitofsky4zonedata/US2004G_3970_PRES04_NONE_H_Data.pdf)

But, at the top of a Washington Post article, this "correction" appears : "The number of randomly selected voters who were interviewed Tuesday for the National Election Pool's exit poll was incorrect in an earlier version of this article. The correct number is 13,047."

:wtf:

[k8conant]

1. 13,047 at the polls, the others were polled by telephone...

they were early voters or absentee voters.

[shiina]

2. Do you know when these numbers were included in the polls?

[k8conant]

3. No