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2012 President · MI

Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports) · fieldwork ended 2012-11-01 (5 days before the election) · 750 respondents · IVR/Online Panel

The poll said

Democrat 52% · Republican 47%

D+5.0

The certified result

Democrat 54.21% · Republican 44.71%

D+9.5

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 52 − 47 = 5.00
  2. Actual margin = 54.208 − 44.711 = 9.497
  3. Signed miss = 5.00 − (9.497) = -4.497
  4. Absolute miss = |-4.497| = 4.497

The poll overstated the Republican by 4.5 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 30591, race ID 675 (538 database).