North Carolina: Republicans with small advantage in SurveyUSA poll

SurveyUSA released the results of a new poll, in which participants from North Carolina were asked who they would vote for. The results show that 43.0% of respondents would vote for Democratic party, while 45.0% said they would vote for Republican party. The poll was conducted between February 14 and February 16. The sample size was 1250 likely voters. Results have a +/-2.8 percentage points margin of error.

Translating these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 48.9% for the democrat Clinton and 51.1% for the republican Trump. The republicans did worse by 2.3 percentage points in comparison to the average results of the other polls in North Carolina.

This article was automatically generated by the PollyBot, which uses algorithms developed by AX Semantics to generate text from data stored in our API. The exact dataset underlying this particular article can be found here.

Please let us know if you find any typos, missing words, or grammatical errors. Your feedback helps us to further improve the quality of the texts.