Poll Average Details- RI Governor - 2010-11-02 18:00:00

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	Lincoln Chafee	Frank Caprio Patrick C. Lynch	John Robitaille	Kenneth J. Block	Joseph M. Lusi	Todd Giroux	Ronald Algieri
Quest Research	10/26	X 1.00000		35.0000 - 3.2745 bias	25.0000 - 1.7224 bias	28.0000 - -4.4815 bias
Fleming & Associates	10/25	X 0.98333		32.8000 - 1.3594 bias	26.2000 - 0.6384 bias	25.5000 - 0.6713 bias	4.1000 - -2.4154 bias
Rasmussen Reports	10/21	X 0.91667		35.0000 - 1.2092 bias	28.0000 - 0.4180 bias	25.0000 - 1.5977 bias	6.0000 - -0.0870 bias
Brown University	9/29	X 0.55000		23.4000 - -0.0642 bias	29.6000 - 3.2620 bias	14.3000 - -2.6676 bias	1.8000 - -4.3437 bias	0.7000 - -0.0642 bias	0.5000 - -0.0642 bias	0.2000 - -0.0642 bias
TOTAL				30.876029	25.560166	25.414689	6.271671	0.764200	0.564200	0.264200