Midterms: FNC Stopped Relying On NEP

“In the middle of its election coverage, Fox News… announced that it was going to stop relying on the exit-poll data” from the National Election Poll “because its decision-desk analysts had discovered a Democratic bias of six to eight percentage points in many areas after comparing the survey results with the actual vote,” the LA Times notes.

The network based its projections “for the rest of the night solely on the actual tabulated vote…”

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