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Google users want to see exit-poll data -- now

01:22 PM PT, Nov 4 2008

Google's Hot Trends list, the page that shows the most intensely searched Google terms of the moment, is chock-full of people who want to know the results of the election -- immediately!  Eight of top 10 search terms, as of 1:00 p.m. Pacific time, were variants of "exit polls 2008," with one subsection of the searching populace just cutting to the chase and typing in "who's winning the election?" 

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Most of those users are going to be disappointed for a while longer, however.  Not only will exit-polling data not be released for several more hours, but even when it is, experts are cautioning everyone to take the results with a grain of salt this time around.

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