Don't know exactly what it is, but they're up to something with this.

OK, I see - this will give them more "flexibility" in their reporting when the absentee votes are counted after the polls close anticipating the enevitable electoral mischief from the loser.

That gives cheaters and the media accomplices 19 opportunities to steal the election. Exit polls can be wrong, but they can also be just right enough to be a trip wire on any funny business when counting votes.

If a state's exit polls show Romney up by 5% late into the evening and then Obama is declared the winner, some eyebrows would be raised and investigations called for. Without the exit poll data, the trip wire is removed and Romney would have no grounds for an investigation without looking like a sore loser. (gee, you think the media would paint him as a sore loser??!!) nuf said.

This is indeed scary, and I think #3 is on to something. Couldn't a conservative PAC do this?

Historically the exit polls have been horribly inaccurate.

~~Slicing the number of state surveys for more representative surveys may be a reasonable trade-off — but it will hit hard. Although it’s not yet clear which states are in or out, all of those that aren’t expected to have competitive contests are all likely on the proverbial “bubble.”~~

Sounds fishy.

I am 100% sure this is a plan to confuse any voter that has not yet voted. But who cares, they all lie no matter what the facts are so it won't matter, the lies will be the same.

Or it could be the MSM is just going broke.

Oh for figgs sake. I just trying to bury the bad news under the rug. IT is so laughably blatent too!

You can bet your last buck they will include 'blue' states.....

Dear Voters in the 19 States.
MSM don't think how you voted matters.
Please just sit quietly at the back of the bus and let the other 31 'more important States' do the opining.

Since these polls are totally bogus, I think this is a GREAT idea. In fact, cancel ALL the exit polls.

And I see the Chicken Littles are out in force this morning--The sky is falling! The sky is falling! This means something--and something bad--we just don't know what yet!

Put a sock in it!

Are the corrupt MSM now deciding what states are 'important?'

California voting grudgingly/desperately for Obama in order to keep the gravy train moving and Alabama voting for Romney to preserve religious freedom, stop the UN's anti-gun agenda and reduce red tape are hardly equivalent scenarios yet ABC wants to deem them solid blue and solid red, respectively, while ignoring anything of substance that goes into a vote.

Election Day is the Super Bowl for news organizations and their hangers-on. Now they're going to show up with a HandiCam and a VCR in terms of budget?

Fake exit polls are capable of throwing an election. They came very close to doing that in Florida.
Watch to see that they are polling eastern Democrat states and ignoring western states. Why would that be?

Yes this is likely devious and unfair. Tea party people in the 31 states should be sure to know as best they can, how the voting is going to help keep the exit polls legit.

Minnesota is not solid for obama.
The state is split east/west from the top of the state to the bottom and judging from the comments in the Minneapolis Star Tribune paper which is a very liberal paper those comments indicate obama is gonna lose.

#1 - it means they'll be releasing their contorted exit poll results from toss-up states only. They'll use those twisted results and call each toss-up state about 5 hours before the polls close.

Bank on it.

Does anyone even listen to the exit polls anymore? They notorious for being wrong. The only man I trust with numbers on election day is Michael Barone.

#9 is probably on the right track.

Without reading the article, I could guess some of the states that will be left out of the exit polls:

Utah - highly Republican
Idaho - same reason
Oklahoma - ditto
North Dakota - Same ol' reason
South Dakota - same as ND

The might include Texas since they will need support for enough electoral votes to declare a winner. Or they could just go ahead and put a big chunk of votes over in the red column.