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past elections

Mississippi President

Barack Obama (D) vs Hillary Rodham Clinton (R)

Actual result
R+13.2
Final polls said
R+11.3
3 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
R+12.4
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
1YouGovR+13.00.2
2University of South Alabama Polling GroupR+13.00.2
3VotePredictorR+12.40.8
4American Research GroupR+16.02.8
5Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)R+8.05.2

Polls (5)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2008-10-27500R+8.05
YouGov2008-10-25417R+13.00
University of South Alabama Polling Group2008-10-17405R+13.00
Scott Rasmussen (Rasmussen Reports)2008-09-30500R+8.05
American Research Group2008-09-15600R+16.03