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2000 President · NY

Quinnipiac University · fieldwork ended 2000-10-27 (11 days before the election) · 709 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 54% · Republican 33%

D+21.0

The certified result

Democrat 56.64% · Republican 32.45%

D+24.2

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 54 − 33 = 21.00
  2. Actual margin = 56.639 − 32.450 = 24.189
  3. Signed miss = 21.00 − (24.189) = -3.189
  4. Absolute miss = |-3.189| = 3.189

The poll overstated the Republican by 3.2 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 6369, race ID 840 (538 database).