Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll conducted by Votamatic were spread. The poll asked interviewees from Idaho for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

The poll was carried out among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

In general, however, a good strategy is to not have too much faith in the results of single polls, because they sometimes incorporate large errors. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we convert Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure results in figures of 61.7% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

When compared to the average results of other polls Clinton performed better with 0.0 percentage points, while Trump did worse with 0.0 percentage points. The most recent PollyVote predicts Clinton to gain 64.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Idaho.

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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