Putting the results in context

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

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

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Hence, you should not put too much trust in the results of an individual poll. At the very least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, one can convert them into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 86.2% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump. To compare: 86.3% was obtained by Clinton in the NYT Upshot poll on August 15, for Trump this result was 0.0%.

Comparison to 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 63.5% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Utah.

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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