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2022 Senate · WI

Civiqs · fieldwork ended 2022-11-06 (2 days before the election) · 739 respondents · Online Panel/Online Ad

The poll said

Democrat 49% · Republican 50%

R+1.0

The certified result

Democrat 49.41% · Republican 50.41%

R+1.0

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 49 − 50 = -1.00
  2. Actual margin = 49.405 − 50.413 = -1.008
  3. Signed miss = -1.00 − (-1.008) = 0.007
  4. Absolute miss = |0.007| = 0.007

The poll overstated the Democrat by 0.0 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81604, race ID 8951 (538 database).