Putting the results in context

NYT Upshot released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Michigan were asked for whom they will vote: Democrat Hillary Clinton or Republican Donald Trump.

The poll was carried out among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. As a result, one should not be too confident the results of a single poll. At least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

In order to make the results comparable to forecasts from benchmark methods, we translate them into two-party vote shares. The respective figures are 10.8% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump. To compare: Only 10.4% was gained by Clinton in the NYT Upshot poll on August 15, for Trump this result was 0.0%.

Comparison to other polls

In comparison 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 45.6% and Trump % of the two-party vote in Michigan.

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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