Massachusetts: Tossup between Clinton and Trump in latest NYT Upshot poll

NYT Upshot published the results of a new poll. In this poll, respondents from Massachusetts were asked for whom they will vote: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

This poll was conducted, among a random sample of 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Hence, one should not have too much faith in the results of a single poll. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we convert Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 1.5% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

In comparison to the average results of other polls Clinton performed worse with 0.0 percentage points, while Trump did better with 0.0 percentage points. The most recent PollyVote predicts Clinton to gain 35.6% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Massachusetts.

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.

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