Democrats hold clear lead in ABC News poll
Results of a new national poll carried out by ABC News were released on March 9. Participants were asked, who they would give their vote to, if the election were today. According to the results, 50.0% of participants would vote for the Democratic Party, while 41.0% would vote for the Republicans. The poll was carried out from March 3 to March 6 among 864 participants. The margin of error is +/-4.0 points.
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 55.0% for the Democrats and 45.1% for the Republicans. In comparison to the average results of other polls the democrats managed 0.8 percentage points the democrats did worse in this poll. In comparison, the PollyVote right now expects the Democrats to gain 52.4% of the two-party vote, which is 2.6 percentage points lower than their poll figures.