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past elections

Rhode Island President

Barack Obama (D) vs Mitt Romney (R)

Actual result
D+27.4
Final polls said
D+21.0
1 late poll · ✓
Model predicted
D+23.2
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
1Brown University A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and PolicyD+26.01.4
2VotePredictorD+23.24.2
3Fleming & AssociatesD+21.06.4

Polls (3)

PollsterDatenPollMiss
Fleming & Associates2012-10-26601D+21.06
Brown University A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy2012-09-30471D+26.01
Fleming & Associates2012-09-28501D+24.03