Maryland: 63 points lead for Clinton in new Wash Post/Univ. Of Maryland*Wash Post/Univ. Of Mar poll

Wash Post/Univ. Of Maryland*Wash Post/Univ. Of Mar released the results of a new poll, in which respondents from Maryland were asked for whom they will vote: Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

Of those who answered the question, 63.0% said that they will vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whereas 0.0% revealed that they would give their vote to real estate developer Donald Trump.

The poll was carried out with 0 participants.

Putting the results in context

Individual polls should be interpreted with caution, since they can incorporate substantial biases. At least, one should check how a poll's results compare to benchmark forecasts.

For the following analysis, we translate Clinton's and Trump's raw poll numbers into two-party vote shares. The respective figures are 70.0% for Clinton and 30.0% for Trump.

Comparison to other polls

Clinton is currently at 69.4% of the major two-party vote according to an average of recent polls in Maryland. This value is 0.6 percentage points lower than her corresponding numbers in the Wash Post/Univ. Of Maryland*Wash Post/Univ. Of Mar poll.

Results compared to the combined PollyVote prediction

The current PollyVote forecasts Clinton to gain 64.3% of the two-party vote in Maryland. That is, the PollyVote is 5.7 points below her 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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