Firms deliver report on exit polling problems in 2004 election

Firms deliver report on exit polling problems in 2004 election: "The two companies responsible for November's exit polls says they've identified a number of problems that caused them to overestimate John Kerry's share of the vote."

They admitted two key differences between the exit poll and the real election were:

• failing to confuse the elderly with complex ballot constructs


• forgotting to throw away the responses of black voters.