出口民调——即在选民离开投票站后立即对他们进行的调查——长期以来一直是选举报道的一大特色。
Exit polls — surveys of voters taken immediately after they exit their polling stations — have long been a hallmark of election coverage.
尽管这类民调在电视和社交媒体上很受欢迎，《纽约时报》在选举报道中通常并不依赖它们。原因如下。
While they're popular on TV and social media, The New York Times does not generally rely on them in our reporting of the election. Here's why.