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2006 Senate · NJ

Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports) · fieldwork ended 2006-10-25 (13 days before the election) · 500 respondents · IVR

The poll said

Democrat 45% · Republican 45%

even

The certified result

Democrat 57.20% · Republican 41.19%

D+16.0

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 45 − 45 = 0.00
  2. Actual margin = 57.204 − 41.185 = 16.019
  3. Signed miss = 0.00 − (16.019) = -16.019
  4. Absolute miss = |-16.019| = 16.019

The poll overstated the Republican by 16.0 points and showed a tie.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 24563, race ID 1598 (538 database).