Israeli exit polls are just as unreliable as American ones

Published April 9, 2019 6:38pm ET



As polls get set to close in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu facing a tight reelection battle, keep in mind that Israeli exit polls are just as unreliable as American ones.

Voting stations will close at 3 p.m. Eastern time, and the early exits are expected to drip out around then. But it won’t be until much later that we get a sense of how the actual vote turned out, and if things were close, it will take days or longer to figure out the next prime minister.

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