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2024 Senate · New Jersey

Rutgers-Eagleton · fieldwork ended 2024-10-22 (14 days before the election) · 478 respondents · Probability Panel

The poll said

Democrat 44% · Republican 12%

D+32.0

The certified result

Democrat 53.61% · Republican 43.99%

D+9.6

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 44 − 12 = 32.00
  2. Actual margin = 53.611 − 43.990 = 9.621
  3. Signed miss = 32.00 − (9.621) = 22.379
  4. Absolute miss = |22.379| = 22.379

The poll overstated the Democrat by 22.4 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 89084, race ID 9522 (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