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2024 House · Georgia

PPP · fieldwork ended 2024-10-18 (18 days before the election) · 400 respondents · IVR/Text · partisan sponsor (DEM)

The poll said

Democrat 51% · Republican 40%

D+11.0

The certified result

Democrat 56.33% · Republican 43.67%

D+12.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 51 − 40 = 11.00
  2. Actual margin = 56.329 − 43.671 = 12.658
  3. Signed miss = 11.00 − (12.658) = -1.658
  4. Absolute miss = |-1.658| = 1.658

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

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 house_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 88906, race ID 9656 (538 database).

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