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past elections

Arkansas Senate

Mark L. Pryor (D) vs Tim Hutchinson (R)

Actual result
D+7.8
Final polls said
D+8.8
5 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
Winner
Dem

"Final polls said" averages polls from the last ~3 weeks — the call right before the vote, and how pollsters are rated. The model's prediction is walk-forward (trained only on earlier races).

Final rankings

How everyone who called this race did, ranked — VotePredictor shown inline (★).

Pollsters — each pollster's final poll vs the result

#PollsterFinal callMissCalled
1GallupD+8.00.2
2Opinion Research AssociatesD+8.00.2
3Zogby AnalyticsD+12.04.2

Polls (8)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Zogby Analytics2002-11-03507D+12.04
Gallup2002-11-01616D+8.00
Zogby Analytics2002-11-01679D+11.03
Opinion Research Associates2002-10-25500D+8.00
Opinion Research Associates2002-10-18501D+5.03
Zogby Analytics2002-10-10679D+0.28
Zogby Analytics2002-09-19507D+2.06
Opinion Research Associates2002-09-18504D+10.02