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2024 President · Michigan

EPIC-MRA · fieldwork ended 2024-10-28 (8 days before the election) · 600 respondents · Live Phone

The poll said

Democrat 48% · Republican 45%

D+3.0

The certified result

Democrat 48.31% · Republican 49.73%

R+1.4

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 48 − 45 = 3.00
  2. Actual margin = 48.313 − 49.727 = -1.414
  3. Signed miss = 3.00 − (-1.414) = 4.414
  4. Absolute miss = |4.414| = 4.414

The poll overstated the Democrat by 4.4 points and had the wrong leader.

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 president_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89163, race ID 8820 (538 database).

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