New York: Clinton and Trump virtually tied in new NYT Upshot poll

Results of a new poll administered by NYT Upshot were distributed. The poll asked interviewees from New York for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

The poll was conducted among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, a good strategy is to not have too much faith in the results of single polls, because they often contain large errors. Rather, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, one can translate them into shares of the two-party vote. The resulting figures are 1.3% 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 39.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in New York.

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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