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2024 Iowa Presidential Election Pollster Ratings

 

The following table lists the preliminary accuracy of pollsters in the November 5, 2024 presidential election in Iowa 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). An accuracy measure with a positive value indicates that the survey overstated support for Donald Trump. An accuracy measure with a negative value indicates that the survey overstated support for Kamala Harris.

 

2024 President - Iowa
Trump Harris Odds
Ratio
Accuracy
Emerson 54% 45% 0.92 -0.09 
SoCal Strategies 52% 44% 0.90 -0.10 
Cygnal 51% 45% 0.86 -0.15 
Insider Advantage 52% 46% 0.86 -0.15*
DMR/Selzer 44% 47% 0.71 -0.34*
Actual 55.73% 42.52%

 

*The accuracy measures for the Insider Advantage poll (sample size of 800) and the DMR/Selzer poll (sample size of 808) fall outside the 95% confidence intervals.The accuracy measures for all 17 polls fall within the 95% confidence intervals.

The average absolute accuracy for all polls is 0.164.

The average absolute accuracy for the 3 polls where the accuracy measures fall within the respective 95% confidence intervals is 0.112.

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