.... On Exit Polls. ABC News

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By MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, TAHMAN BRADLEY, MATT STUART, ANGIE HU,and SARAH BAKER with CATRIN JONES, KARUNA SESHASAI, ERICA ANDERSON, and MONA RAPHAEL

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31
ABC News

"The environment for the last week of the midterm season is the bitter, angry Freak Show that now defines the center of American politics.

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And/but we are all about common ground here. So let's start with things that Howard Dean and Karl Rove both agree with (or, at least, should agree with): 1. It is hard to beat an incumbent. 2. Both turning out the base AND winning the votes of independents matter, with Stu Rothenberg reminding us about independents today. LINK

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4. There are no exit polls in House races.

5. In a major change, all of the exit poll results will be available to only a handful of sequestered staffers from the consortium members until 5 pm ET, meaning the data will not be on Drudge until 5:10 ET at the earliest (unless something goes wrong). LINK

6. Every news organization makes mistakes in how they deal with polls and exit polls; not every news organization makes these mistakes based on ideological bias.


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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238

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1. Is Drudge predicting a "mistaken release"?