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2006 Governor · GA

InsiderAdvantage · fieldwork ended 2006-11-01 (6 days before the election) · 500 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 36% · Republican 50%

R+14.0

The certified result

Democrat 38.22% · Republican 57.95%

R+19.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 36 − 50 = -14.00
  2. Actual margin = 38.218 − 57.946 = -19.728
  3. Signed miss = -14.00 − (-19.728) = 5.728
  4. Absolute miss = |5.728| = 5.728

The poll overstated the Democrat by 5.7 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 73570, race ID 1335 (538 database).