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2006 Senate · OH

Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports) · fieldwork ended 2006-10-24 (14 days before the election) · 500 respondents · IVR

The poll said

Democrat 54% · Republican 43%

D+11.0

The certified result

Democrat 56.16% · Republican 43.81%

D+12.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 54 − 43 = 11.00
  2. Actual margin = 56.164 − 43.815 = 12.349
  3. Signed miss = 11.00 − (12.349) = -1.349
  4. Absolute miss = |-1.349| = 1.349

The poll overstated the Republican by 1.3 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 24582, race ID 1602 (538 database).