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2024 House · Florida

U. North Florida · fieldwork ended 2024-10-19 (17 days before the election) · 337 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 41% · Republican 48%

R+7.0

The certified result

Democrat 42.72% · Republican 57.26%

R+14.5

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 41 − 48 = -7.00
  2. Actual margin = 42.722 − 57.259 = -14.537
  3. Signed miss = -7.00 − (-14.537) = 7.536
  4. Absolute miss = |7.536| = 7.536

The poll overstated the Democrat by 7.5 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 88921, race ID 9630 (538 database).

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