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2024 House · Nebraska

YouGov · fieldwork ended 2024-10-28 (8 days before the election) · 389 respondents · Online Matched Sample

The poll said

Democrat 50% · Republican 46%

D+4.0

The certified result

Democrat 49.07% · Republican 50.93%

R+1.9

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 50 − 46 = 4.00
  2. Actual margin = 49.073 − 50.927 = -1.854
  3. Signed miss = 4.00 − (-1.854) = 5.853
  4. Absolute miss = |5.853| = 5.853

The poll overstated the Democrat by 5.9 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 house_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89078, race ID 9774 (538 database).

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