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<\/a>Draft of report on Kentucky Gubernatorial election, 1967<\/p><\/div>\n
Warren Mitofsky, who conducted and invented the first exit poll in the 1967 Kentucky Gubernatorial Election. Warren Mitofsky, was born on September 17, 1934, in the Bronx, NY. He attended and graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, and did graduate work at the University of North Carolina. Mitofsky began his career working for the U.S. Census Bureau. While there, he designed many surveys on demographics including those for the poverty program and presidential commissions. During this time, he also developed,\u00a0 with his colleague Joseph Waksberg, an efficient random digit dialing sampling method that would be widely implemented and an industry standard for many years. Mitofsky left the Census Bureau for CBS News in 1967 to become the executive director of the election and survey unit, a post he held until 1990. Inspired by George Fine\u2019s surveys of moviegoers after they left the theater, At the same time he developed the analysis and projection systems used to call elections. Exit polls were first used in national elections in 1972 and remain in use to the present day.<\/p>\n
Mitofsky\u2019s career and work to refine the outcome of elections is well documented in his papers, and with the publication of the finding aid (https:\/\/archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/209<\/a>), the collection is now open for research.<\/p>\n –Betsy Pittman, University Archivist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the 2012 Presidential election gears up for the fall, American voters\u00a0 are being inundated with statistics, information, perspectives and opinions on the candidates vying for office. Quite frequently, the reports are augmented by statistics generated from public opinion polls.\u00a0 … Continue reading