VotePredictor
past elections

California President

Barack Obama (D) vs Mitt Romney (R)

Actual result
D+23.1
Final polls said
D+15.8
5 late polls · ✓
Model predicted
D+20.3
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
1MFour Mobile ResearchD+22.90.2
2VotePredictorD+20.32.8
3YouGovD+15.08.1
4Field Research Corp. (Field Poll)D+15.08.1
5Princeton Survey Research Associates InternationalD+15.08.1
6Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/American ViewpointD+14.09.1
7SurveyUSAD+14.09.1
8Public Policy Institute of CaliforniaD+12.011.1

Polls (16)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
YouGov2012-11-021575D+15.08
MFour Mobile Research2012-10-252115D+22.90
Field Research Corp. (Field Poll)2012-10-231566D+15.08
Public Policy Institute of California2012-10-18993D+12.011
Greenberg Quinlan Rosner/American Viewpoint2012-10-181440D+14.09
Princeton Survey Research Associates International2012-10-13508D+15.08
Princeton Survey Research Associates International2012-10-13709D+15.08
MFour Mobile Research2012-10-09830D+21.12
YouGov2012-10-081169D+19.04
SurveyUSA2012-10-08539D+14.09
MFour Mobile Research2012-09-25824D+27.95
Public Policy Institute of California2012-09-13995D+14.09
Field Research Corp. (Field Poll)2012-09-12891D+24.01
MFour Mobile Research2012-09-11802D+22.01
YouGov2012-09-111361D+17.06
SurveyUSA2012-09-10524D+22.01