Charlie’s Exit Poll Blog Post

In school on the day of the New York primary we went to different polling sites in Soho. We split into groups and each group went to a different one. My group went to St. Anthony’s church. I learned that you have to pick a candidate from your political party Democrat or Republican. I also learned that exit polling is you wait outside a polling site and ask people a series of questions such as: what political party are you, and who did you vote for? We also asked questions like how old you are, and what is your race or ethnicity?

Some things that surprised me was that there were barely any Republican voters in fact there was only 21 who voted while there were over 320 Democrats that voted. Another thing that surprised me is that I thought that almost every Democrat would vote Hillary Clinton but there was also a bunch of people who voted for Bernie Sanders. Out of the 21 Republicans who voted 16 votes were for John Kasich, 4 were for Donald Trump while only 1 vote was casted for Ted Cruz. After we did the exit polling the data processors calculated all of the information and the end of the day revealed that 77% of the Democrats voted for Clinton and 33% voted for Sanders. It was really fun to do exit polling because you feel like politics reporter..