Massachusetts: Dead heat between Clinton and Trump in new NYT Upshot poll

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

The poll was conducted with 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Hence, a good strategy is to not rely too much on the results of an individual poll. Rather, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we convert the candidates' raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 1.6% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump. On August 15 Clinton obtained only 1.5% in the NYT Upshot poll and Trump obtained 0.0%.

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 35.6% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Massachusetts.

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.