Exit polls online early

As expected, Slate and the Drudge Report posted exit polls before news networks and polls closed -- like they've been doing since 2000 -- and bloggers followed suit.

For those who don't recall, Slate's Jack Shafer was the first to break the exit poll embargo in a presidential election, back in February 2000 in the New Hampshire primary. He said at the time, and still argues, that "The self-censorship the media practices on exit polls is based on the idiotic and condescending notion that only members of the media can be trusted with this precious information" and that he was publishing exit poll information early "because I'm in business to disseminate information, not to withhold it because somebody might use it 'incorrectly'."

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