IIRC it ' s just since America shifted to mostly electronic voting , basically after 2000 . Before that exit polls matched pretty closely and ever since actual results in national elections have almost always been substantial more to the right than the exit polls . It ' s so common now that it has an official term of red shift among pollsters and election observors . Many of the national elections of the last 15 years have been far enough off that the US would likely be raising flags in other countries . <| sep |> Best game of all time <| sep |> Checking in with a light period for about a week . Course I got the Paragard so I ' ve been paying for that with every period since then . <| sep |> I ' m still pissed I didn ' t keep my Cydonia .