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2022 Senate · IN

Civiqs · fieldwork ended 2022-11-06 (2 days before the election) · 707 respondents · Online Panel/Online Ad

The poll said

Democrat 38% · Republican 49%

R+11.0

The certified result

Democrat 37.87% · Republican 58.62%

R+20.7

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 38 − 49 = -11.00
  2. Actual margin = 37.872 − 58.618 = -20.746
  3. Signed miss = -11.00 − (-20.746) = 9.746
  4. Absolute miss = |9.746| = 9.746

The poll overstated the Democrat by 9.7 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 raw_polls.csv. Poll ID 81606, race ID 8929 (538 database).