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2024 House · Nebraska

YouGov · fieldwork ended 2024-10-28 (8 days before the election) · 404 respondents · Online Matched Sample

The poll said

Democrat 22% · Republican 68%

R+46.0

The certified result

Democrat 19.58% · Republican 80.42%

R+60.8

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 22 − 68 = -46.00
  2. Actual margin = 19.582 − 80.418 = -60.836
  3. Signed miss = -46.00 − (-60.836) = 14.837
  4. Absolute miss = |14.837| = 14.837

The poll overstated the Democrat by 14.8 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 house_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89078, race ID 9775 (538 database).

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