Georgia: New WSB-TV poll shows Republicans ahead
WSB-TV published the results of a new poll on May 7. In this poll, respondents from Georgia were asked for whom they would likely vote if Hillary Clinton were the Democratic Party's candidate and Donald Trump were the Republican Party's candidate.
The results show that 41.0% of participants will vote for the Democrats, while 42.0% said they would vote for GOP. The poll was carried out from May 5 to May 5 among 570 likely voters. Estimated have a +/-4.1 percentage points sampling error.
According to other surveys
Converting these results into two-party vote shares yields values of 49.4% for the Democrat Hillary Clinton and 50.6% for the Republican Donald Trump. The vote share for the Republicans is 2.3 percentage points over the average results of other polls in Georgia.
According to PollyVote's prognosis
The poll numbers for the Republicans are therefore 3.6 percentage points below the combined PollyVote, which at the moment foresees a two-party vote share of 54.2% in Georgia. On a national level the results are 11.2 percentage points lower in comparison to the PollyVote prognosis for the Republicans vote share.