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Below the lineNebraska: Osborn vs. RickettsRicketts+0.311 polls
2026 Senate

Nebraska Senate average

Osborn vs. Ricketts. Ricketts leads by 0.3 points in the On Point average of 11 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.

11 polls9 pollstersUpdated Oct 5, 202630 days −0.3Forecast I +3.0 · open the racePublic JSON
Osborn45.5
MarginRicketts+0.3
Ricketts45.8
Newest 11 polls
The average over time
38%40%42%44%46%48%50%MayJunJulAugSepOct45.5Osborn45.8Ricketts
The line is the On Point average: a robust LOWESS fit through the polls, weighted by recency, sample, voter screen and pollster grade, refit three times so outliers count for lessDot size is each poll's weight todayHover or use the arrow keys to read any day

What moves the average today

Share of today's weight
Impact Research (D)Aug 13 · 600 LV · NR20%Even
GBAOSep 8 · 800 LV · F20%Osborn+1.0
National Public Affairs (R)Oct 5 · 800 LV · NR18%Ricketts+3.0
YouGovOct 3 · 1,809 LV · C16%Osborn+1.0
SurveyUSASep 13 · 503 LV · C+14%Osborn+4.0
co/efficient (R)Sep 30 · 1,113 LV · C+11%Ricketts+5.0

Each 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

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On Point averageOct 5, 202611 polls45.545.8Ricketts+0.3100%
National Public Affairs (R)NROct 5, 26800LV4346Ricketts+3.018.5%
YouGovCOct 3, 261,809LV4847Osborn+1.016.4%
co/efficient (R)C+Sep 30, 261,113LV4045Ricketts+5.011.0%
SurveyUSAC+Sep 13, 26503LV4642Osborn+4.014.1%
GBAOFSep 8, 26800LV4746Osborn+1.020.0%
Impact Research (D)NRAug 13, 26600LV4747Even20.0%
Tavern Research (D)NRMay 11, 261,165LV4742Osborn+5.00%
Impact Research (D)NRFeb 5, 26600LV4748Ricketts+1.00%
Lake Research PartnersNRDec 17, 25900LV4748Ricketts+1.00%
Lake Research PartnersNRJul 29, 25900LV4746Osborn+1.00%
Change ResearchDApr 1, 25524LV4546Ricketts+1.00%
Voter sample
Ricketts+0.3
11 polls in the average