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past elections

Florida House

Joe Garcia (D) vs Mario Diaz-Balart (R)

Actual result
R+6.1
Final polls said
R+6.0
3 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
R+5.6
Winner
Rep

"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
1VotePredictorR+5.60.5
2EMC ResearchR+3.03.1
3The McDonald GroupR+2.04.1
4McLaughlin & AssociatesR+13.06.9

Polls (3)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
EMC Research2008-10-08500R+3.03
McLaughlin & Associates2008-10-04300R+13.07
The McDonald Group2008-09-29300R+2.04