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2020 Texas Presidential Election Pollster Ratings
The following table lists the
preliminary accuracy of pollsters in the November 3, 2020 Texas presidential election 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).
| 2020 Texas President |
|
Biden |
Trump |
Odds
Ratio |
Accuracy |
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| University of Houston |
45% |
50% |
1.01 |
0.01 |
| UT/Texas Tribune |
45% |
50% |
1.01 |
0.01 |
| NYT/Siena |
43% |
47% |
1.02 |
0.02 |
| Rasmussen Reports |
44% |
51% |
0.97 |
-0.03 |
| CBS/YouGov |
46% |
48% |
1.07 |
0.07 |
| UMass Lowell |
47% |
48% |
1.10 |
0.09 |
| Emerson |
49% |
49% |
1.12 |
0.11 |
| Quinnipiac |
47% |
47% |
1.12 |
0.11 |
| Dallas Morning News |
48% |
45% |
1.20 |
0.18* |
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| Actual |
46.48% |
52.06% |
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*The accuracy measures for the Dallas Morning News poll (sample
size of 925) fall outside the 95% confidence intervals.
This represents approximately 11% of all final polls in Texas.
The accuracy measures for the other 8 polls fall within the
95% confidence intervals.
The average absolute accuracy for all polls is 0.071. The average absolute accuracy for the 8 polls where the accuracy measures fall within the respective 95% confidence
intervals is 0.058. In
2016 in Texas, the average absolute accuracy for 9 final polls
was 0.085. All 9 final polls had accuracy measures that were
within the respective 95% confidence intervals. As a reference: The average absolute accuracy for all polls in the
2016
presidential election was 0.070. The average absolute accuracy for all polls in the
2012
presidential election was 0.055. The average absolute accuracy for all polls in the 2008 presidential election was 0.037.
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