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2016 Senate · AZ

Data Orbital · fieldwork ended 2016-11-05 (3 days before the election) · 550 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 44% · Republican 56%

R+12.0

The certified result

Democrat 40.75% · Republican 53.71%

R+13.0

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 44 − 56 = -12.00
  2. Actual margin = 40.749 − 53.710 = -12.961
  3. Signed miss = -12.00 − (-12.961) = 0.962
  4. Absolute miss = |0.962| = 0.962

The poll overstated the Democrat by 1.0 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 48628, race ID 87 (538 database).