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2020 President · FL

Susquehanna Polling & Research Inc. · fieldwork ended 2020-10-31 (3 days before the election) · 400 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 46% · Republican 47%

R+1.0

The certified result

Democrat 47.86% · Republican 51.22%

R+3.4

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 46 − 47 = -1.00
  2. Actual margin = 47.861 − 51.220 = -3.359
  3. Signed miss = -1.00 − (-3.359) = 2.358
  4. Absolute miss = |2.358| = 2.358

The poll overstated the Democrat by 2.4 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 72491, race ID 6220 (538 database).