Skip to content

2022 Senate · NV

Noble Predictive Insights · fieldwork ended 2022-10-26 (13 days before the election) · 600 respondents · Live Phone/Text

The poll said

Democrat 43% · Republican 41%

D+2.0

The certified result

Democrat 48.81% · Republican 48.04%

D+0.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 43 − 41 = 2.00
  2. Actual margin = 48.814 − 48.037 = 0.777
  3. Signed miss = 2.00 − (0.777) = 1.223
  4. Absolute miss = |1.223| = 1.223

The poll overstated the Democrat by 1.2 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81377, race ID 8937 (538 database).