Putting the results in context

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

In Nevada, the popular vote is usually decided by a narrow margin. Therefore, the state is commonly regarded as a battleground state, which makes it particularly interesting from a forecasting perspective.

The poll was conducted . A total of 0 respondents responded.

Putting the results in context

As a general rule, however, don't have too much faith in the results of single polls, because they often incorporate large errors. At least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to benchmark forecasts, you can translate them into two-party vote shares. This procedure yields values of 48.5% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

Comparison to 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 49.0% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Nevada.

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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