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2022 Governor · PA

Marist College · fieldwork ended 2022-11-01 (7 days before the election) · 1,152 respondents · Live Phone/Online Panel/Text

The poll said

Democrat 54% · Republican 39%

D+15.0

The certified result

Democrat 56.49% · Republican 41.72%

D+14.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 54 − 39 = 15.00
  2. Actual margin = 56.486 − 41.715 = 14.771
  3. Signed miss = 15.00 − (14.771) = 0.229
  4. Absolute miss = |0.229| = 0.229

The poll overstated the Democrat by 0.2 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81507, race ID 8979 (538 database).