Poll Average Details- AL Governor - 2002-11-05 19:00:00

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	Donald E. "Don" Siegelman	Bob Riley	John P. Sophocleus	Others
USA Polling Group	10/24	X 1.00000		40.0000 - -4.7824 bias	44.0000 - 4.3589 bias	2.0000 - 0.6524 bias
Business Council of Alabama	10/23	X 0.98333		41.0000 - -0.6222 bias	42.0000 - 0.3265 bias	2.0000 - 0.6536 bias
Alabama Education Association	10/21	X 0.95000		40.0000 - -0.6647 bias	40.0000 - -0.8925 bias	3.0000 - 1.9152 bias
University of Alabama	9/12	X 0.30000		43.0000 - -2.3589 bias	45.0000 - 2.2071 bias	2.0000 - 0.3507 bias
TOTAL				42.664958	40.919315	1.298013	0.000000