New NYT Upshot poll in Rhode Island: Trump and Clinton in a virtual tie

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

The poll was conducted. The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls should be regarded with caution, since they can incorporate substantial biases. At least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from benchmark methods, we translate them into two-party vote shares. The resulting figures are 2.2% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

When compared 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 37.1% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Rhode Island.

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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