Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll administered by Votamatic were spread. The poll asked participants from New Hampshire for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

In New Hampshire, the election outcome is usually decided by a narrow margin. This is why the state is commonly considered a battleground state, which makes it particularly interesting from a forecasting perspective.

The poll was conducted. The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

In general, however, one should not have too much faith in the results of single polls, as they sometimes contain large errors. At least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we convert Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. The resulting figures are 44.5% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

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 46.4% and Trump % of the two-party vote in New Hampshire.

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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