Putting the results in context

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

In Ohio, the popular vote is often close. This is the reason why the state is commonly viewed as a purple state, which makes it particularly interesting from a forecasting perspective.

This poll was conducted , among a random sample of 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls often contain substantial biases, and should be treated with caution. Rather than trusting the results from single polls, forecasting research recommends to consult combined polls or, even better, a combined forecast that includes different methods and data.

To make the results comparable to forecasts from other methods, you can translate 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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