Alaska Dispatch/Ivan Moore poll in Alabama: Trump with 5 points lead

Results of a new poll carried out by Alaska Dispatch/Ivan Moore were announced. The poll asked participants from Alabama for whom they will vote: Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton or Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Of those who responded, 44.0% said that they intend to vote for former New York Senator Hillary Clinton, while 49.0% said that they would give their vote to businessman Donald Trump.

This poll was conducted from January 5 to January 12, among a random sample of 651 registered voters.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls should be regarded with caution, because they can incorporate large biases. At the very least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following comparison, we translate the candidates' raw poll numbers into shares of the two-party vote. This procedure yields values of 47.3% for Clinton and 52.7% for Trump.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote prediction

The most recent PollyVote expects Trump to gain 60.2% of the two-party vote in Alabama. Hence, the PollyVote forecast is 7.5 points above 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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