Texas: Trump with sizable advantage in new KTVT-CBS 11 poll

KTVT-CBS 11 released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Texas were asked for whom they will vote: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

According to the results, 35.0% of respondents will vote for former First Lady Hillary Clinton, whereas 46.0% plan to vote for real estate developer Donald Trump.

This poll was conducted from August 8 to August 9, among a random sample of 1018 likely voters.

Putting the results in context

As any other method, polls are subject to bias. In general, don't focus too much on the results of a single poll. Rather, 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. This yields figures of 43.2% for Clinton and 56.8% for Trump.

Results vs. other polls

Trump currently achieves 55.1% of the major two-party vote in an average of recent polls in Texas. This value is 1.7 percentage points lower than his corresponding numbers in the KTVT-CBS 11 poll.

The poll in comparison with PollyVote's forecast

The most recent PollyVote anticipates Trump to gain 56.0% of the two-party vote in Texas. Hence, Polly's combined forecast is 0.8 points below his polling numbers.

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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