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2014 Governor · KS

Rasmussen Reports · fieldwork ended 2014-10-20 (15 days before the election) · 960 respondents · IVR/Online Panel

The poll said

Democrat 52% · Republican 45%

D+7.0

The certified result

Democrat 46.13% · Republican 49.82%

R+3.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 52 − 45 = 7.00
  2. Actual margin = 46.130 − 49.821 = -3.691
  3. Signed miss = 7.00 − (-3.691) = 10.691
  4. Absolute miss = |10.691| = 10.691

The poll overstated the Democrat by 10.7 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 33834, race ID 1228 (538 database).