I can relax - our exit polls were exactly right. Morgan and Lamar go to the run-off.
I will now spend a full minute gloating before I write the full election story.
Stay tuned.
Just two more quick notes on the exit poll:
1) The total number of people we polled was 2169, almost double last year.
2) Apparently, there was a betting pool going on in HOVA yesterday based on our exit poll results.
Whoever won, you’re buying me lunch.
A lot of people have been asking us all day about the methodology behind the exit polls we’ve been running on the 2006 SA presidential race. They’ve ranged from how we do it, to why we do it, to “is it ethical?” I’m going to try to answer them in this post.
First off, the how […]
Just a quick note so you will all stop badgering my news staff - we will begin to release candidate videos Wednesday morning. The opinion department also informs me that endorsements will begin to go out the same day.
Later this week I’ll address some of the great questions I got over break.
This past weekend, we did our candidate interviews for spots in the Student Association, Marvin Center Governing board, and Program Board. I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how and why we do this.
As to the how, it’s simple. Each candidate scheduled a time, and they came in, sat down in front of […]