Putting the results in context

Results of a new poll conducted by NYT Upshot were circulated. The poll asked respondents from Kentucky for whom they will vote: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

The poll was carried out among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Hence, a good strategy is to not be too confident the results of an individual poll. Instead of trusting the results from single polls, research in forecasting recommends to look at combined polls or, even better, the combined PollyVote forecast that relies on different methods and data.

For the following comparison, we convert the candidates' raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. The resulting figures are 92.8% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump. In the most recent NYT Upshot poll on August 15 Clinton obtained 92.9%, while Trump obtained 0.0%.

Results in 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 59.1% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Kentucky.

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.