Putting the results in context

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

This poll was conducted , among a random sample of 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, since they may contain large errors. Instead of trusting the results from single polls, you should use combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that draws upon different methods and data.

For the following analysis, we translate Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. The resulting figures are 89.8% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump. On August 15 Clinton received 89.9% in the NYT Upshot poll and Trump received 0.0%.

Comparison to other polls

In comparison 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 56.4% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Tennessee.

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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