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2022 Senate · NY

Research Co. · fieldwork ended 2022-11-05 (3 days before the election) · 450 respondents · Online Panel

The poll said

Democrat 59% · Republican 39%

D+20.0

The certified result

Democrat 51.65% · Republican 37.67%

D+14.0

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 59 − 39 = 20.00
  2. Actual margin = 51.648 − 37.666 = 13.982
  3. Signed miss = 20.00 − (13.982) = 6.018
  4. Absolute miss = |6.018| = 6.018

The poll overstated the Democrat by 6.0 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81587, race ID 8939 (538 database).