Poll Average Details- MO US Senate - 2006-11-07 21:00:00

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	Claire McCaskill	Jim Talent Scott Babbitt	Frank Gilmour Frank Gilmour	Lydia Lewis	Don Barrett	Arthur W. Shortland
OnPoint Polling and Research	11/6	X 1.00000		49.0000 - 1.5272 bias	46.0000 - 0.0144 bias
Survey USA	11/5	X 0.98333		51.0000 - 0.5274 bias	42.0000 - 0.3265 bias	4.0000 - 1.3296 bias
Polimetrix	11/5	X 0.98333		50.0000 - 1.9452 bias	50.0000 - 1.6909 bias
Gallup	11/4	X 0.96667		49.0000 - -2.6491 bias	45.0000 - 2.8840 bias
Mason-Dixon	11/3	X 0.95000		46.0000 - 0.4277 bias	45.0000 - 0.8543 bias
Rasmussen Reports	11/2	X 0.93333		49.0000 - 0.4180 bias	48.0000 - 1.5977 bias	0.0000 - 1.6402 bias	0.0000 - -0.8637 bias
Reuters/Zogby	10/31	X 0.90000		46.0000 - 1.3729 bias	43.0000 - 0.1506 bias	0.0000 - -2.3990 bias	0.0000 - -0.8637 bias
Opinion Research Corporation (CNN)	10/29	X 0.86667		49.0000 - 0.8608 bias	49.0000 - 0.4312 bias
Zogby Interactive	10/27	X 0.83333		47.3000 - 0.0637 bias	48.6000 - 0.8374 bias	3.0000 - 3.1506 bias
Research 2000	10/26	X 0.81667		47.0000 - 1.1463 bias	47.0000 - 0.1379 bias	2.0000 - -0.0712 bias
LA Times	10/23	X 0.76667		45.0000 - 1.0135 bias	48.0000 - 1.0817 bias
the polling company™ (R)	10/1	X 0.40000		49.0000 - -0.1545 bias	40.0000 - 1.2390 bias
TOTAL				47.596443	45.253197	1.079131	0.863700	0.000000	0.000000