Tap a state, a sticky note or a race in the list. Colour is the current On Point average: pale when close, deep when safe.
Arkansas Senate average
Shoffner vs. Cotton. Cotton leads by 9.7 points in the On Point average of 6 public polls: a robust LOWESS fit through every poll, weighted by a 15.8 day recency half life, sample size, voter screen and pollster grade, with three bisquare passes that weigh down outliers.
What moves the average today
Share of today's weightEach poll's weight is its sample size, voter screen, pollster grade and age, with a 15.8 day half life, and those weights are the kernel of a robust LOWESS fit: a local line read at the day itself, with three bisquare passes that weigh down any poll far from the rest. No single poll can carry more than 15 percent. Gold Standard pollsters, On Point Polling, Big Data Poll, The Honest Poll, Emerson, Cygnal, Quantus Insights, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, carry the top grade. Rasmussen Reports and ActiVote are not counted. Trafalgar and InsiderAdvantage are marked Lean R and Impact Research Lean D. The tables show every poll as published; the average counts a lean firm's poll moved the other way by its measured lean against other polls of the same races, and the chart shows that move as a hollow dot for the poll as published joined to the filled dot the average counts: Trafalgar 3.8 points right over 35 polls, InsiderAdvantage 4.6 points right over 42 polls, Impact Research 0.0 points left over 0 polls.
All polls
6 of 6| On Point average | Oct 13, 2026 | 6 polls | 40.3 | 50.0 | Cotton+9.7 | 100% |
| Hendrix CollegeNR | Oct 13, 26 | 709LV | 41 | 50 | Cotton+9.0 | 64.7% |
| GrayHouse (R)NR | Oct 4, 26 | 550LV | 39 | 50 | Cotton+11.0 | 33.0% |
| J.L. PartnersB+ | Aug 18, 26 | 803LV | 35 | 51 | Cotton+16.0 | 2.2% |
| Hendrix CollegeNR | Aug 12, 26 | 1,217LV | 47 | 44 | Shoffner+3.0 | 0% |
| 2040 Strategy Group (D)NR | Jul 25, 26 | 586LV | 43 | 46 | Cotton+3.0 | 0.1% |
| GrayHouse (R)NR | Feb 9, 26 | 550LV | 36 | 58 | Cotton+22.0 | 0% |
6 polls in the average