VotePredictor
past elections

Arkansas President

Barack Obama (D) vs Mitt Romney (R)

Actual result
R+23.7
Final polls said
R+24.0
2 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
R+29.3
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
1Hendrix CollegeR+21.02.7
2University of Arkansas Department of Political ScienceR+27.03.3
3VotePredictorR+29.35.6

Polls (2)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
University of Arkansas Department of Political Science2012-10-11642R+27.03
Hendrix College2012-09-172228R+21.03