WaPost issues correction to story on exit polls

[texpatriot2004]

Correction to This Article

One of the headlines on Richard Morin's Nov. 21 Outlook article on exit polling might have left a misimpression. It should have read, "Exit Polls Can't Always Predict Winners, So Don't Expect Them To," rather than, "Exit Polls Can't Predict Winners, So Don't Expect Them To."

A portion of a television interview with Warren Mitofsky, co-director of exit polling for the National Election Pool, was incorrectly transcribed by the Public Broadcasting Service and subsequently quoted in a Nov. 21 Outlook article on exit polling. PBS reviewed the audiotape after the article appeared. The review found that Mitofsky said he had cautioned the TV networks and other members of the pool about suspected problems with early exit-poll results and told them "which states to ignore." He did not say the networks "chose to ignore" his caution.

End Results
Surveying the Damage
Exit Polls Can't Always Predict Winners, So Don't Expect Them To

By Richard Morin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64906-2004Nov20.html/?nav=yb-p3