That title of the article on the front page is incorrect. Those are not "whisper numbers", theyre predictions.
Whispers numbers are the numbers you get Friday night that may give you an idea of the kind of box office a movie did. In an election its like the exit polling the night of the election from people that have already voted. Its not the polling/predictions days before the election.
Calling those predictions "whisper numbers" is misleading and an incorrect usage of the term.