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2024 Senate · Massachusetts

U. New Hampshire · fieldwork ended 2024-11-02 (3 days before the election) · 744 respondents · Probability Panel

The poll said

Democrat 60% · Republican 37%

D+23.0

The certified result

Democrat 59.81% · Republican 40.00%

D+19.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 60 − 37 = 23.00
  2. Actual margin = 59.815 − 40.003 = 19.812
  3. Signed miss = 23.00 − (19.812) = 3.188
  4. Absolute miss = |3.188| = 3.188

The poll overstated the Democrat by 3.2 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 89299, race ID 9514 (538 database).

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