Exit polls Gilligan. They create "random" samples of folks living the polls. They ask them who they voted for. The write the results down, put them in a "computer" and it does the math.
Get it? On Nov 4, 9:43 pm, JayMac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This maybe a "dumb" question, but how does the media "call" states > for > a president when there are only 15% of votes in? I do not understand > this. Can't think of which state it was, but I saw CNN call the vote > with a margin of 10,000 votes, each candidate had about 120,000 > total, > with only 15% of the votes in. Early in the night I believe that I > saw a state called with 1% of votes in. Am I missing something here? > Mathematically this doesn't make any sense to me. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
