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2024 Senate · Pennsylvania

Quinnipiac · fieldwork ended 2024-10-28 (8 days before the election) · 2,186 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 50% · Republican 47%

D+3.0

The certified result

Democrat 48.60% · Republican 48.82%

R+0.2

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 50 − 47 = 3.00
  2. Actual margin = 48.601 − 48.818 = -0.217
  3. Signed miss = 3.00 − (-0.217) = 3.217
  4. Absolute miss = |3.217| = 3.217

The poll overstated the Democrat by 3.2 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 senate_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89104, race ID 9527 (538 database).

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