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2024 President · Nevada

Washington Post/George Mason University · fieldwork ended 2024-10-15 (21 days before the election) · 652 respondents · Live Phone/Text-to-Web/Email/Mail-to-Web

The poll said

Democrat 47% · Republican 44%

D+3.0

The certified result

Democrat 47.49% · Republican 50.59%

R+3.1

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 47 − 44 = 3.00
  2. Actual margin = 47.493 − 50.592 = -3.099
  3. Signed miss = 3.00 − (-3.099) = 6.099
  4. Absolute miss = |6.099| = 6.099

The poll overstated the Democrat by 6.1 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 president_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 88812, race ID 8857 (538 database).

This poll asked 2 versions of the question for this race; one is scored (largest sample) so the poll counts once.

population: rv