Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll carried out by Votamatic were published. The poll asked participants from Louisiana for whom they will vote: Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.

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

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. As a result, don't be overly confident the results of an individual poll. At the very least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

To make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, you can translate them into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 57.2% 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 57.5% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Louisiana.

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.

Please let us know if you find any typos, missing words, or grammatical errors. Your feedback helps us to further improve the quality of the texts.