Networks to release exit poll report
USA Today:
The firms that produced exit polls of voters last November this week told the news organizations that paid them what, if anything, they think went wrong with those surveys.
Tuesday, a representative of the news companies pledged that the public will get a look at the conclusions.
The polls of voters as they left polling places led to widespread speculation on Election Day that Sen. John Kerry was sweeping President Bush out of office.
Tom Hannon, political director at CNN and a member of the steering committee for the six-member media consortium that paid for the exit polls, says representatives from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC and the Associated Press want to review the report before releasing it later this week.
Mark Blumenthal of the blog Mystery Pollster comments here.
I wish I hadn't lost my archives when I upgraded to MT 3.14. On Election Day, when word came that the exit polls were overweighted with women, I wrote then that Mr. Kerry's supporters would be in for a disappointing night.