Election exit polls in control

Once again, television networks are looking to Election Night with some apprehension, trying to avoid a repeat of the past two presidential cycles when initial exit polls suggested victories for John Kerry and Al Gore. Network executives say this time around they're deploying a series of measures to prevent the early leak of polling information, as well as to make adjustments for skewed sampling of respondents as they leave the polling booth. With at least a dozen battleground states where votes for the two candidates are expected to be close, networks will have to resist the competitive temptation to project winners based on exit polls, said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider.