Poll Average Details- OH US President - R Primary - 2012-03-06 18:30:00

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.

PollMid DateTime WeightInternal Rick Santorum Rick SantorumMitt Romney Rick SantorumNewt Gingrich Rick SantorumRon Paul Rick SantorumRick Perry Rick SantorumJon Huntsman Rick Santorum
Public Policy Polling3/4X 1.00000   36.0000 37.0000 15.0000 11.0000    
American Research Group3/4X 1.00000   28.0000 35.0000 18.0000 13.0000    
Rasmussen Reports3/4X 1.00000   32.0000 31.0000 13.0000 13.0000    
Merriman River Group (MRG)3/4X 1.00000   33.0000 38.0000 18.0000 8.0000    
Suffolk University3/4X 1.00000   37.0000 33.0000 16.0000 8.0000    
Opinion Research Corporation (CNN)3/4X 1.00000   32.0000 32.0000 14.0000 11.0000    
Reuters/Ipsos3/3X 0.98333   32.0000 32.0000 17.0000 6.0000    
Quinnipiac University3/1X 0.95000   35.0000 31.0000 17.0000 12.0000    
YouGov3/1X 0.95000   33.0000 27.0000 12.0000 9.0000    
University of Cincinnati (The Ohio Poll)2/26X 0.88333   37.0000 26.0000 16.0000 11.0000    
TOTAL 33.455631 32.307167 15.604096 10.194539 0.000000 0.000000