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2022 Governor · OK

WPA Intelligence · fieldwork ended 2022-10-30 (9 days before the election) · 500 respondents · Live Phone · partisan sponsor (REP)

The poll said

Democrat 39% · Republican 52%

R+13.0

The certified result

Democrat 41.78% · Republican 55.45%

R+13.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 39 − 52 = -13.00
  2. Actual margin = 41.785 − 55.449 = -13.664
  3. Signed miss = -13.00 − (-13.664) = 0.664
  4. Absolute miss = |0.664| = 0.664

The poll overstated the Democrat by 0.7 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81484, race ID 8977 (538 database).