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2024 President · Virginia

Roanoke College · fieldwork ended 2024-10-29 (7 days before the election) · 851 respondents · Live Phone/Text-to-Web

The poll said

Democrat 51% · Republican 41%

D+10.0

The certified result

Democrat 51.82% · Republican 46.06%

D+5.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 51 − 41 = 10.00
  2. Actual margin = 51.824 − 46.057 = 5.767
  3. Signed miss = 10.00 − (5.767) = 4.234
  4. Absolute miss = |4.234| = 4.234

The poll overstated the Democrat by 4.2 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 president_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89157, race ID 8895 (538 database).

population: lv