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2012 Mississippi Republican Presidential Primary Pollster Ratings

 

The following table lists the accuracy of pollsters in the March 13, 2012 Mississippi Republican Presidential primary using the measure of polling accuracy proposed by Martin, Traugott, and Kennedy.

 

An accuracy measure of 0.00 indicates that the odds ratio of the survey results matches the odds ratio of the actual results (the closer to 0.00, the better).

 

2012 Mississippi Republican Presidential Primary
Santorum Gingrich Odds
Ratio
Accuracy
Rasmussen 27% 27% 0.95 -0.05 
PPP 27% 33% 0.78 -0.25 
ARG 22% 32% 0.65 -0.42*
Actual 32.8% 31.2%

The accuracy measures do not differ at the 95% confidence interval.

* The accuracy measure for the ARG poll falls outside the 95% confidence interval.

 

2012 Mississippi Republican Presidential Primary
Santorum Romney Odds
Ratio
Accuracy
PPP 27% 31% 0.81 -0.21 
Rasmussen 27% 35% 0.72 -0.33*
ARG 224% 34% 0.60 -0.50*
Actual 32.8% 30.6%

The accuracy measures do not differ at the 95% confidence interval.

* The accuracy measure for the Rasmussen and the ARG polls fall outside the 95% confidence intervals.

 

2012 Mississippi Republican Presidential Primary
Gingrich Romney Odds
Ratio
Accuracy
PPP 33% 31% 1.04 0.04 
ARG 32% 34% 0.92 -0.08 
Rasmussen 27% 35% 0.76 -0.28*
Actual 31.2% 30.6%

The accuracy measures do not differ at the 95% confidence interval.

* The accuracy measure for the Rasmussen poll falls outside the 95% confidence interval.

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