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2024 President · New Jersey

Rutgers-Eagleton · fieldwork ended 2024-10-22 (14 days before the election) · 478 respondents · Probability Panel

The poll said

Democrat 51% · Republican 37%

D+14.0

The certified result

Democrat 51.97% · Republican 46.06%

D+5.9

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 51 − 37 = 14.00
  2. Actual margin = 51.974 − 46.065 = 5.909
  3. Signed miss = 14.00 − (5.909) = 8.090
  4. Absolute miss = |8.090| = 8.090

The poll overstated the Democrat by 8.1 points and had the right leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 president_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89084, race ID 8851 (538 database).

This poll asked 2 versions of the question for this race; one is scored (largest sample) so the poll counts once.

population: rv