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2022 Senate · AZ

Marist College · fieldwork ended 2022-11-01 (7 days before the election) · 1,157 respondents · Live Phone/Online Panel/Text

The poll said

Democrat 49% · Republican 45%

D+4.0

The certified result

Democrat 51.40% · Republican 46.51%

D+4.9

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 49 − 45 = 4.00
  2. Actual margin = 51.395 − 46.507 = 4.888
  3. Signed miss = 4.00 − (4.888) = -0.887
  4. Absolute miss = |-0.887| = 0.887

The poll overstated the Republican by 0.9 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81508, race ID 8919 (538 database).