 In contrast, individual pollsters were less successful.For example, Rasmussen Reports "missed on six of its nine swing-state polls".An independent analysis of Silver's state-by-state projections, assessing whether the percentages of votes that the candidates actually received fell within the "margin of error" of Silver's forecasts, found that "48 out of 50 states actually fell within his margin of error, giving him a success rate of 96%.