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2024 Senate · New York

Research Co. · fieldwork ended 2024-11-03 (2 days before the election) · 450 respondents · Online Opt-In Panel

The poll said

Democrat 61% · Republican 33%

D+28.0

The certified result

Democrat 58.81% · Republican 40.52%

D+18.3

The arithmetic

  1. Poll margin = 61 − 33 = 28.00
  2. Actual margin = 58.815 − 40.524 = 18.291
  3. Signed miss = 28.00 − (18.291) = 9.709
  4. Absolute miss = |9.709| = 9.709

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

Where these numbers come from

Poll and result: 538 senate_polls_historical.csv (archived 2025-03-06). Poll ID 89326, race ID 9524 (538 database).

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