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2016 President · NH

University of New Hampshire Survey Center · fieldwork ended 2016-11-01 (7 days before the election) · 466 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 47% · Republican 40%

D+7.0

The certified result

Democrat 46.83% · Republican 46.46%

D+0.4

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 47 − 40 = 7.00
  2. Actual margin = 46.826 − 46.459 = 0.367
  3. Signed miss = 7.00 − (0.367) = 6.632
  4. Absolute miss = |6.632| = 6.632

The poll overstated the Democrat by 6.6 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 48503, race ID 632 (538 database).