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2010 Senate · CA

Field Research Corp. (Field Poll) · fieldwork ended 2010-10-20 (13 days before the election) · 1,092 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 49% · Republican 41%

D+8.0

The certified result

Democrat 52.18% · Republican 42.17%

D+10.0

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 49 − 41 = 8.00
  2. Actual margin = 52.184 − 42.173 = 10.011
  3. Signed miss = 8.00 − (10.011) = -2.011
  4. Absolute miss = |-2.011| = 2.011

The poll overstated the Republican by 2.0 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 32719, race ID 1510 (538 database).