[lbo-talk] Connecticut results

[Jesse Lemisch]

Have the networks stopped doing exit polls? I doubt it; they need the data.
The question is, when does the data leak out? Various laws and customs
prevent them from saying a word until the moment the polls close (or perhaps
:59), when, based on such sources, they are sometimes immediately able to
announce a winner. (They can't release poll results early since Bridgeport
and Danbury have been in different time zones with different voting times
ever since the former had a socialist mayor:-).) But the experienced
Kremlinologist can read their faces all day.  Of course, in the '04
election, Kerry people were prematurely celebrating victory by mid-afternoon
on the basis of leaked exit polls.

Jesse Lemisch

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 11:05 AM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Connecticut results


> For those of you who care about such things, since there are no exit
> polls in Connecticut today, the most timely reports of results will
> be on the state election site: <http://www.sots.ct.gov/LEAD/
> LeadIndex.htm> and <http://www.statementofvote-sots.ct.gov/
> StatementOfVote/>.
>
> Doug
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