Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll administered by Votamatic were published. The poll asked participants from Ohio for whom they will vote: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

Ohio is traditionally a purple state, where the candidates of both major parties have historically won similar levels of support among voters. This is why the election outcome in that state is considered critical in determining the overall result of the presidential election.

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

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. In general, a good strategy is to not have too much faith in the results of an individual poll. Rather, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we convert the candidates' raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This procedure results in values of 47.4% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in 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 49.0% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Ohio.

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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