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2014 Governor · KS

Public Policy Polling · fieldwork ended 2014-10-30 (5 days before the election) · 752 respondents · IVR · partisan sponsor (DEM)

The poll said

Democrat 48% · Republican 44%

D+4.0

The certified result

Democrat 46.13% · Republican 49.82%

R+3.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 48 − 44 = 4.00
  2. Actual margin = 46.130 − 49.821 = -3.691
  3. Signed miss = 4.00 − (-3.691) = 7.691
  4. Absolute miss = |7.691| = 7.691

The poll overstated the Democrat by 7.7 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 34492, race ID 1228 (538 database).