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2008 President · OK

SoonerPoll.com · fieldwork ended 2008-10-25 (10 days before the election) · 720 respondents · IVR

The poll said

Democrat 35% · Republican 62%

R+27.0

The certified result

Democrat 34.35% · Republican 65.64%

R+31.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 35 − 62 = -27.00
  2. Actual margin = 34.355 − 65.645 = -31.290
  3. Signed miss = -27.00 − (-31.290) = 4.290
  4. Absolute miss = |4.290| = 4.290

The poll overstated the Democrat by 4.3 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 16676, race ID 740 (538 database).