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2020 President · MI

Public Policy Polling · fieldwork ended 2020-10-21 (13 days before the election) · 804 respondents · IVR/Text · partisan sponsor (DEM)

The poll said

Democrat 50% · Republican 43%

D+7.0

The certified result

Democrat 50.62% · Republican 47.84%

D+2.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 50 − 43 = 7.00
  2. Actual margin = 50.621 − 47.837 = 2.784
  3. Signed miss = 7.00 − (2.784) = 4.216
  4. Absolute miss = |4.216| = 4.216

The poll overstated the Democrat by 4.2 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 71679, race ID 6233 (538 database).