Putting the results in context

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

The poll was carried out with 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, one should not have too much faith in the results of single polls, because they can contain large errors. Rather, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we translate Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 98.3% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results vs. 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 62.6% and Trump % of the two-party vote in West Virginia.

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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