Poll Average Details- LA Governor - Runoff - 2003-11-15 20:00:00

The Poll Average is a weighted and adjusted number.
[Mid Date Column] All times are calculated by the middle date of the poll if it spans multiple days.
A time window of 2 months prior to the most recent poll is used.
[Time Weight Column] Polls are weighted in the amount they contribute to the final results in a linear fashion in this time window - the newest poll has a weight of 1, a poll 30 days prior will have a weight of 0.5 and a poll 60 days out will have a weight of 0. If the same pollster has more than one poll in this time period, only the newest will be used.
[Internal Column] If a poll is marked as being an internal poll for one of the candidates, it's weight will be halved.
[Candidate Columns, Bias] OurCampaigns has calculated partisan bias figures for all Polling Firms based on data from final vote totals in races they have polled. These amounts are subtracted from the poll result - in the case the bias figure is negative it will effectively be added to the poll result and appear as two dashes (minus a negative = plus). [TOTAL Row] The adjusted weights are summed for each poll result and the adjusted poll results for each candidate are multiplied by the poll weight and then summed. Each candidate's poll sum is divided by their weight sum to give the total.

Poll	Mid Date	Time Weight	Internal	Bobby Jindal	Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Anderson Group	11/12	X 1.00000		45.0000 - 0.1269 bias	38.0000 - -1.6738 bias
Market Research Insight	11/12	X 1.00000		46.0000 - -0.5645 bias	42.0000 - 2.1422 bias
JPI Polling and Market Research	11/10	X 0.96667		47.0000 - 5.0683 bias	39.0000 - -5.0683 bias
Mason-Dixon	11/6	X 0.90000		48.0000 - 0.8543 bias	43.0000 - 0.4277 bias
Southeastern Louisiana University	11/5	X 0.88333		40.1000 - 1.0603 bias	41.4000 - 0.1162 bias
Market Research Institute	11/5	X 0.88333		49.0000 - 1.8165 bias	42.0000 - -0.7379 bias
Loyola Institute of Politics	11/3	X 0.85000		35.0000 - 1.2681 bias	34.0000 - 0.1035 bias
University of New Orleans	11/1	X 0.81667		44.0000 - 0.2013 bias	40.0000 - 0.3227 bias
Voter/Consumer Research (R)	10/23	X 0.66667		48.0000 - 4.2271 bias	43.0000 - -4.6564 bias
Southern Media & Opinion	10/20	X 0.61667		40.5000 - 1.0539 bias	42.7000 - 0.2495 bias
Kennedy Polling Company	10/17	X 0.56667		47.0000 - -1.0511 bias	53.0000 - 1.0511 bias
Market Research and Anaylsis	10/7	X 0.40000		35.0000 - -1.9985 bias	41.0000 - 1.9985 bias
TOTAL				42.988793	41.766220