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2022 House · NM-3

Research & Polling Inc. · fieldwork ended 2022-10-24 (15 days before the election) · 434 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 53% · Republican 35%

D+18.0

The certified result

Democrat 58.16% · Republican 41.84%

D+16.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 53 − 35 = 18.00
  2. Actual margin = 58.157 − 41.843 = 16.314
  3. Signed miss = 18.00 − (16.314) = 1.685
  4. Absolute miss = |1.685| = 1.685

The poll overstated the Democrat by 1.7 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81348, race ID 9253 (538 database).