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2020 Senate · MI

Change Research · fieldwork ended 2020-10-31 (3 days before the election) · 383 respondents · Text-to-Web/Online Ad

The poll said

Democrat 51% · Republican 46%

D+5.0

The certified result

Democrat 49.90% · Republican 48.22%

D+1.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 51 − 46 = 5.00
  2. Actual margin = 49.903 − 48.218 = 1.685
  3. Signed miss = 5.00 − (1.685) = 3.315
  4. Absolute miss = |3.315| = 3.315

The poll overstated the Democrat by 3.3 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 72728, race ID 6280 (538 database).