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You misunderstood that tweet. The tweet was not inclusive to Northern Virginia. It singled out NVA because this is the strongest part of the state for Rubio. I can write without a doubt, exit polls are spread throughout the state and not just northern Virginia. In fact, the networks themselves do not handle the exit polls. Because of the expense, all the networks, the cable news companies and large print companies split the cost of the exit polls - they all get the same data and, of course, will report on it as they see fit. The importance of the exit poll is not necessarily who is the projected winner, but the reams of data on who voted and why they voted the way they did. A third party manages the exit polling for the news organizations.

To prove that the exit polls were indeed across the state, the exit polls at 7 pm when the voting ceased, showed Trump tied with Rubio (CBS) or Trump a few points ahead (Fox) - it is how they interpret the data. Rubio was expected to be strong in NVA and Trump strong in southern Virginia. In NVA, Rubio got twice the vote Trump did. If the exit polls were only in NVA, the networks would have called it immediately for Rubio by a 2 to 1 margin and of course, they did not do that.

As we know, Trump won by 3 points (almost all the vote is in - only 17 precincts are missing). For them to have that accurate of an exit poll required them obtaining data all around the state not just NVA.

Again, do you really think big news organizations that spend millions of dollars collecting this data, would willfully only have exit polls in one corner of the state that would guarantee wrong data in front of millions of viewers. No, not at all. The exit poll for Virginia was very close to the actual result which proves the exit polls were conducted all across the state, and not just in NVA. Rubio beat Trump 2 to 1 in Northern Va. The exit polls would have shown a Rubio landslide in the state and it did not.