Clear lead for Democrats in new Ipsos poll
Results of a new national poll conducted by Ipsos were published on February 26. Participants were asked, who they would give their vote to, if the election were today. Of those who responded, 44.0% said that they plan to vote for the democrat Clinton, while 35.0% declared that they would give their vote to the republican Trump. The poll was carried out between February 20 and February 24. The sample size was 1246 participants. Estimated have a +/-9.0 percentage points sampling error.
Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields figures of 55.7% for the Democrats and 44.3% for the Republicans. In comparison to the average results of other polls The democrats did worse in this poll. In Comparison, the PollyVote right now foresees the Democrats to achieve 51.9% of the two-party vote, which is 3.8 percentage points lower than their poll results.