Putting the results in context

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

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

Putting the results in context

Single polls should be regarded with caution, as they often incorporate large biases. Instead of trusting the results from single polls, the best practice is to use combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that includes forecasts from different methods, each of which includes different data.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from benchmark methods, we convert them into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 3.8% 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 44.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Washington.

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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