Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll conducted by NYT Upshot were spread. The poll asked participants from Florida for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

In Florida, the popular vote is usually decided by a narrow margin. Therefore, the state is commonly regarded as a purple state, which makes it particularly interesting from a forecasting perspective.

The poll was carried out. The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Single polls should be treated with caution, as they may incorporate substantial errors. Instead of relying on results from single polls, the recommended strategy rely on combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that relies on different methods and data.

To make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, one can convert them into two-party vote shares. The respective figures are 27.5% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in 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 49.4% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Florida.

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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