Putting the results in context

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

The poll was carried out among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Single polls should be regarded with caution, as they may contain substantial errors. At the very least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we convert Trump's and Clinton's raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure results in values of 16.2% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in comparison to 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 45.0% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Minnesota.

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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