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2020 President · TX

Quinnipiac University · fieldwork ended 2020-10-18 (16 days before the election) · 1,145 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 47% · Republican 47%

even

The certified result

Democrat 46.48% · Republican 52.06%

R+5.6

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 47 − 47 = 0.00
  2. Actual margin = 46.479 − 52.058 = -5.579
  3. Signed miss = 0.00 − (-5.579) = 5.579
  4. Absolute miss = |5.579| = 5.579

The poll overstated the Democrat by 5.6 points and showed a tie.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 71556, race ID 6254 (538 database).