Putting the results in context

RCP published the results of a new poll. In this poll, respondents from Ohio were asked for whom they will vote: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

Ohio is traditionally a purple state, where Democrats and Republicans have often gained similar voter support. Hence, the election outcome here is regarded important in determining who will win the majority of electoral votes.

The poll was conducted among 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. Thus, as a general rule, you should not have too much confidence in the results of an individual poll. Instead of relying on results from single polls, forecasting research recommends to look at combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that uses different methods and data.

To make the results comparable to benchmark forecasts, you can convert them into shares of the two-party vote. The resulting figures are 48.5% for Clinton and 0.0% for Trump.

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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