Do these exit polls and early returns we are seeing take into account.....

[Gato Moteado]

....the early voting?

[skeewee08]

1. No....

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Exit polls, no.

Early returns, I think so.

[Travelman]

5. I believe that this is correct

At least how I understand it, the networks call states based upon exit polling, but the returns that you see crawling on the screen are including early voting, absentee, etc., as each precinct reports in to that state's secretary of state (or who ever it is in charge of that in each respective state).

As such, and I've seen this before, candidate A shows up 60% to 40% over candidate B on the returns on the screen, but they call the race for candidate B, because the 3% of precincts that happen to have reported are all heavy candidate A precincts, but candidate B absolutely owns the other 97% of the precincts in the state.

[Fearless]

3. No.

[cthulu2016]

4. I think Yes.

IIRC, they do exit polling of early voting sites also.

[Gato Moteado]

6. yeah, right after i posted this, i saw the guy on CNN......

....say that the first numbers in the early returns are from the early voting

[David Zephyr]

7. If they are reporting exit polls, they do not include EV's or AB's

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