Putting the results in context

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

The poll was conducted among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, you should not have too much faith in the results of single polls, as they can contain large errors. Instead of trusting the results from single polls, forecasting research recommends to consult combined polls or, even better, the combined PollyVote forecast that relies on forecasts from different methods, each of which relies on different data.

For the following comparison, we translate Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. This yields figures of 9.9% 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 45.5% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Connecticut.

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