Poll Average Details- OH US President - D Primary - 2008-03-04 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.

Poll	Mid Date	Time Weight	Internal	Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton	Barack Obama Hillary Clinton	John Edwards Hillary Clinton
Zogby International	3/3	X 1.00000		44.0000	44.0000
American Research Group	3/3	X 1.00000		56.0000	42.0000
Public Policy Polling	3/2	X 0.98333		51.0000	42.0000
Survey USA	3/2	X 0.98333		54.0000	44.0000
Rasmussen Reports	3/2	X 0.98333		50.0000	44.0000
Quinnipiac University	3/2	X 0.98333		49.0000	45.0000
Suffolk University	3/2	X 0.98333		52.0000	40.0000
Columbus Dispatch	2/29	X 0.95000		56.0000	40.0000
Mason-Dixon	2/29	X 0.95000		47.0000	43.0000
Opinion Dynamics (FOX)	2/28	X 0.93333		46.0000	38.0000
University of Cincinnati (The Ohio Poll)	2/24	X 0.86667		47.0000	39.0000
Washington Post/ABC News	2/20	X 0.80000		50.0000	43.0000
Opinion Consultants	1/25	X 0.36667		44.0000	28.0000	17.0000
TOTAL				50.018388	41.601132	17.000000