Putting the results in context

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

The poll was in the field . The sample size was 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, you should not have too much faith in the results of single polls, since they sometimes contain large errors. 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 shares of the two-party vote. This procedure yields figures of 61.7% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Results in 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 64.9% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Idaho.

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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