Putting the results in context

NYT Upshot released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Alaska were asked for whom they will vote: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

This poll was conducted, among a random sample of 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls should be treated with caution, as they may include substantial errors. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we convert the candidates' raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 82.9% 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 60.8% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Alaska.

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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