What will be the polling error in Michigan in the 2024 US presidential election?
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10%
> 4 points in Democrat's favor
10%
[3-4) points in Democrat's favor
10%
[2-3) points in Democrat's favor
10%
[1-2) points in Democrat's favor
10%
[0-1) points in Democrat's favor
10%
(0-1) points in Republican's favor
10%
[1-2) points in Republican's favor
10%
[2-3) points in Republican's favor
10%
[3-4) points in Republican's favor
10%
> 4 points in Republican's favor

Michigan is considered one of the most important swing states in this election. According to Nate Silver's presidential election forecast, Michigan currently (as of September 18th) has a 16% chance of being the tipping point state, with Harris having a 80,1% chance of winning the election if she wins MI and Trump a 94.2% chance. According to the RCP average from August 23rd to September 16th, Harris currently leads by 1.0% in statewide polls. However, both in 2016 and 2020 RCP's state polling for Michigan was off (by 3.4% and 1.5% respectively) in favor of the Republican candidate.

This question is about the error in polling for the 2024 US presidential election in the state of Michigan. It concerns the margin between the Democrat and Republican candidates and not between specific candidates like Harris or Trump.

The error is the difference in margin between Democrats and Repuplicans according to RCP (https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/michigan/trump-vs-harris) data on November 4th, versus the final results according to the Wikipedia page of the election. An error in favor of a candidate means that the candidate does better than polls predict. For example if polls give Harris a 1% lead but Trump wins by 1.5%, this question resolves to [2%-3%) in Republican's favor. This is similar to https://manifold.markets/Weezing/what-will-be-the-polling-error-in-2 but only for the state of Michigan and not the whole of the US.

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