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A '''decision desk''' is the team of experts that a US [[News media|news organization]] assembles to analyze incoming data about election results and project winners on election day.<ref name=AP2006>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
Decision desks use [[exit polling]] data as well as [[Elections_in_the_United_States#Multiple_levels_of_regulation|officially reported]] results as they come in, to project and then "call" the winners of elections on election night.<ref name=ShepardExit/>
Exit polling data was gathered by [[Voter News Service]] which existed from 1990 to 2003, and which was disbanded due to disastrous mistakes in the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 presidential election]] and in the [[United States elections, 2002|2002 elections]].<ref></ref><ref name=WaPo2003></ref> Afterward they formed the [[National Election Pool]] which produced skewed results in the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 US presidential election]]<ref name=NYT2004>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential elections]].<ref name=ShepardExit>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
[[Megyn Kelly]] was made famous when she walked backstage to Fox News' decision desk team during the broadcast of the [[2012 US presidential election]] results, when [[Karl Rove]] denied the data the team was producing that Obama would win.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
Decision Desk HQ is a election-calling company founded in 2016 that grew out of a 2012 crowdsourcing effort led by truck dispatcher Brendan Finnigan, who had temporarily found a home on the [[Ace of Spades HQ]] blog before launching the company.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> [[Buzzfeed]] signed a partnership with Decision Desk HQ in 2017; its first major partnership.<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Elections in the United States]]
[[Category:Television news in the United States]]
Decision desks use [[exit polling]] data as well as [[Elections_in_the_United_States#Multiple_levels_of_regulation|officially reported]] results as they come in, to project and then "call" the winners of elections on election night.<ref name=ShepardExit/>
Exit polling data was gathered by [[Voter News Service]] which existed from 1990 to 2003, and which was disbanded due to disastrous mistakes in the [[United States presidential election, 2000|2000 presidential election]] and in the [[United States elections, 2002|2002 elections]].<ref></ref><ref name=WaPo2003></ref> Afterward they formed the [[National Election Pool]] which produced skewed results in the [[United States presidential election, 2004|2004 US presidential election]]<ref name=NYT2004>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref> and in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 presidential elections]].<ref name=ShepardExit>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>
[[Megyn Kelly]] was made famous when she walked backstage to Fox News' decision desk team during the broadcast of the [[2012 US presidential election]] results, when [[Karl Rove]] denied the data the team was producing that Obama would win.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
Decision Desk HQ is a election-calling company founded in 2016 that grew out of a 2012 crowdsourcing effort led by truck dispatcher Brendan Finnigan, who had temporarily found a home on the [[Ace of Spades HQ]] blog before launching the company.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref> [[Buzzfeed]] signed a partnership with Decision Desk HQ in 2017; its first major partnership.<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:Elections in the United States]]
[[Category:Television news in the United States]]
April 23, 2018 at 11:22AM
