Poll Average Details- FL Chief Financial Officer - 2006-11-07 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	Alex Sink	Tom Lee
Survey USA	11/4	X 1.00000		50.0000 - 0.5274 bias	46.0000 - 0.3265 bias
Zogby International	11/2	X 0.96667		40.0000 - 0.8870 bias	44.0000 - 0.0434 bias
Mason-Dixon	11/1	X 0.95000		44.0000 - 0.4277 bias	40.0000 - 0.8543 bias
Strategic Vision (R)	10/31	X 0.93333		41.0000 - -0.4798 bias	44.0000 - 1.1151 bias
Schroth & Associates (D) and The Polling Company (R)	10/25	X 0.83333		41.0000 - 2.6379 bias	35.0000 - -1.9480 bias
Research 2000	9/20	X 0.25000		37.0000 - 1.1463 bias	47.0000 - 0.1379 bias
TOTAL				42.227400	42.138796