Putting the results in context

Votamatic released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Colorado were asked for whom they will vote: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

Colorado is traditionally a battleground state, where the Democratic and Republican candidates have historically gained similar levels of support among voters. Hence, the election outcome here is regarded important in determining which party will win the majority of electoral votes.

The poll was carried out with 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls often incorporate large biases, which is why they should be treated with caution. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from benchmark methods, you can convert them into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 42.6% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results vs. 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 45.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Colorado.

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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