Maryland: Whopping lead for Clinton in Goucher College*Goucher College* poll

Goucher CollegeGoucher College released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Maryland were asked for whom they will vote: Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.

Of those who replied, 58.0% said that they intend to vote for former First Lady Hillary Clinton, whereas 25.0% indicated that they would give their vote to businessman Donald Trump.

The poll was conducted from September 17 to September 20. A total of 514 likely voters responded. There is a sampling error of +/-4.3 percentage points. Considering this error margin, the gap between both candidates is statistically significant.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls often contain large errors, and should be treated with caution. At least, one should examine how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we convert the candidates' raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. This yields figures of 69.9% for Clinton and 30.1% for Trump.

Results compared to other polls

Clinton can currently count on 69.2% of the two-party vote in an average of recent polls in Maryland. Relative to her numbers in the Goucher CollegeGoucher College poll Clinton's poll average is 0.7 percentage points worse. This deviation is within the poll's sampling error, which suggests that the poll is not an outlier.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote prediction

The latest PollyVote expects Clinton to gain 64.0% of the two-party vote in Maryland. That is, the PollyVote forecast is 5.9 points below her polling numbers. The PollyVote forecast is thus outside the poll's error margin.

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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