exit poll
noun
: a poll taken (as by news media) of voters leaving the voting place that is usually used for predicting the winners
exit polling
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Some box office pundits showed the female-skewing film coming in between $33 million and $35 million for the four days after not-so-great reviews, a B CinemaScore and solid, but not spectacular, exit polls conducted by PostTrak.
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Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
According to exit polls, 60% of inaugural crowds were male and 85% were between 18 and 34 years old.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
In 2008, after the Democrats’ sweeping victory of the White House and Congress, the longtime Republican operative Ralph Reed began studying exit polls to understand why so many conservatives who wouldn’t have dreamed of voting for Al Gore or John Kerry had supported Obama.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Calling Mamdani antisemitic for his criticism of Zionism, Weiss is among the roughly two-thirds of Jewish New Yorkers who opposed Mamdani, according to exit polls.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
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Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 15 Feb. 2026
According to exit polls, 60% of inaugural crowds were male and 85% were between 18 and 34 years old.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 1 Feb. 2026
In 2008, after the Democrats’ sweeping victory of the White House and Congress, the longtime Republican operative Ralph Reed began studying exit polls to understand why so many conservatives who wouldn’t have dreamed of voting for Al Gore or John Kerry had supported Obama.
—Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Calling Mamdani antisemitic for his criticism of Zionism, Weiss is among the roughly two-thirds of Jewish New Yorkers who opposed Mamdani, according to exit polls.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2025
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“Exit poll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exit%20poll. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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