How to Use exit poll in a Sentence

exit poll

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  • An exit poll showed that 60% of black voters chose Biden.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 29 Feb. 2020
  • African Americans were the only racial group Biden won, the exit polls show.
    — Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 4 Mar. 2020
  • In North Carolina, the two were running close with that group, exit polls suggested.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2020
  • What exit polls are saying about how women are voting on Super Tuesday & voters' top issues.
    — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 4 Mar. 2020
  • That finding, at least, is suggested in numbers scattered throughout exit poll results from Super Tuesday.
    — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
  • According to exit polls, the Likud leader’s right-wing bloc will however fall slightly short of a parliamentary majority.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2020
  • At the same time, Biden's net approval rating in the exit poll was +23 points.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The venue falls silent before the exit poll results come through.
    — Astha Rajvanshi/london, TIME, 5 July 2024
  • That figure matched the results of NBC News exit polls.
    — Denise Chow, NBC News, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Compare that to exit polls four years ago that showed Sanders winning among whites 56%-42%.
    — Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press, 9 Mar. 2020
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Here are the results, biggest takeaways and what exit polls showed, and key election dates and events.
    — Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
  • That's a record-high turnout among liberals in Ohio exit polls dating back to 1984.
    — Christine Filer, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The problem for Biden is that the exit poll indicates clear leakage in his support from a year ago.
    — Harry Enten, CNN, 18 Sep. 2021
  • Trump was winning about one-third of that group, an improvement over his 28% showing in the exit poll four years ago.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Those findings align with the results of exit polls from elections since the Dobbs decision in 2022.
    — Sarah McCammon, NPR, 2 May 2024
  • Moreover, more than two-thirds of voters said democracy in the U.S. is threatened, the exit poll found.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In a sense, the 2020 exit poll was just another pre-election survey.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The exit poll puts his job approval rating at 44 percent.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 9 Nov. 2022
  • If the exit poll comes true, the win for Labour will be almost as large as Tony Blair’s momentous 1997 victory.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 4 July 2024
  • In France, the far-right candidate for EU parliament won 31.5% of the vote, according to exit polls.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 9 June 2024
  • The question wasn’t asked in the fourth state with exit polls today, Mississippi.
    — Ella Torres, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • In Mississippi, Biden claimed an 84% share of the black vote, according to exit polls.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
  • One exit poll found that the virus was the most important issue guiding more than 40 percent of voters.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • But what the exit polls suggest is something else: that late-deciding voters broke for him.
    — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 15 July 2024
  • Today, early exit poll results show that young voters make up just a quarter of the electorate.
    — NBC News, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Forty-one percent of voters in the exit poll said that only Biden had the mental and physical health to serve as president.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • At the Social Democrats’ headquarters in Berlin, the crowd cheered as a second initial exit poll showed the party narrowly ahead.
    — Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2021
  • The national exit poll from 2022 helps explain why that midterm election was a disappointing year for the GOP.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 22 June 2024
  • An exit poll is scheduled to be published at 10 p.m., suggesting winners in key races.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 4 July 2024

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