VotePredictor
past elections

Minnesota President

John Kerry (D) vs George W. Bush (R)

Actual result
D+3.5
Final polls said
D+3.2
13 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+4.0
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
1VotePredictorD+4.00.5
2Minneapolis Star TribuneD+4.00.5
3Market Shares Corp.D+2.01.5
4American Research GroupD+2.01.5
5Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)D+1.02.5
6Zogby AnalyticsD+6.02.5
7St. Cloud State UniversityD+7.03.5
8Garin-Hart-Yang Research GroupD+7.03.5
9Mason-Dixon Polling & StrategyR+1.04.5
10GallupD+8.04.5
11University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public AffairsR+3.06.5

Polls (26)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Minneapolis Star Tribune2004-10-31743D+4.01
Zogby Analytics2004-10-31601D+6.03
Gallup2004-10-291078D+8.05
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2004-10-28600D+1.02
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2004-10-28625R+1.04
Zogby Analytics2004-10-28709D+2.01
Minneapolis Star Tribune2004-10-28996D+8.05
Zogby Analytics2004-10-27603R+1.04
University of Minnesota Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs2004-10-23690R+3.06
Zogby Analytics2004-10-23600D+1.02
St. Cloud State University2004-10-21508D+7.04
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2004-10-17625R+2.05
Zogby Analytics2004-10-15784D+11.18
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2004-10-14772R+1.04
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2004-10-11500D+3.00
Market Shares Corp.2004-10-10500D+2.01
Market Shares Corp.2004-10-10500D+2.01
Minneapolis Star Tribune2004-10-10809D+5.02
Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group2004-10-03800D+7.04
Zogby Analytics2004-10-02709D+8.35
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2004-09-21500R+2.05
Zogby Analytics2004-09-15709D+9.76
Gallup2004-09-13675EVEN3
Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy2004-09-13625R+2.05
American Research Group2004-09-11600D+2.01
Minneapolis Star Tribune2004-09-101035D+9.06