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2024 Senate · Michigan

Quinnipiac · fieldwork ended 2024-10-21 (15 days before the election) · 1,136 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 52% · Republican 44%

D+8.0

The certified result

Democrat 48.64% · Republican 48.30%

D+0.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 52 − 44 = 8.00
  2. Actual margin = 48.639 − 48.298 = 0.341
  3. Signed miss = 8.00 − (0.341) = 7.659
  4. Absolute miss = |7.659| = 7.659

The poll overstated the Democrat by 7.7 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 senate_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 88893, race ID 9515 (538 database).

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