Even the gloomiest of the exit and opinion polls had envisaged that the ruling coalition, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), would lose only a couple of dozen seats, which it was expected easily to make up by wooing a few more small parties into its camp.
Within minutes television news channels buzzed with estimates from exit and opinion polls, all pointing to Narendra Modi as, comfortably, India's next prime minister.
On many fronts, Mr. Montzka's change of heart reflects what opinion and exit polls have been showing in recent years: a sharp increase in support for same-sex marriage in a short time among every age group, including the biggest voting group, the baby boomers.
The state broadcaster had threatened to sue Fifa for loss of earnings in the wake of the defeat to South Korea, suggesting that their nation's early World Cup exit – caused, in their opinion, by incompetent officiating – had cost them millions in advertising revenue.
You can do this by using opinion polls, exit polls, newspaper articles, or even by intuition.
Baumbach is not this person, and he has a sense of humor, but he has been directing people since his teens, and has firm passenger-seat opinions about which exit to take off the West Side Highway.
Frederic Court, who has been a General Partner at Advent Ventures for the last ten years, shares his opinion regarding the exit environment in Europe.
Of course, though, that impression is contradicted by a large body of other opinion surveys and exit polls taken over the past two years.
A few taxi drivers camped out near the airport exit are keen to express their opinions.
Nor was it just the opinion polls and the exit polls in the New Hampshire primary.
