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2006 Senate · TN

Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports) · fieldwork ended 2006-11-02 (5 days before the election) · 500 respondents · IVR

The poll said

Democrat 45% · Republican 53%

R+8.0

The certified result

Democrat 47.99% · Republican 50.71%

R+2.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 45 − 53 = -8.00
  2. Actual margin = 47.989 − 50.712 = -2.723
  3. Signed miss = -8.00 − (-2.723) = -5.277
  4. Absolute miss = |-5.277| = 5.277

The poll overstated the Republican by 5.3 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 24620, race ID 1605 (538 database).