Poll Average Details- CT US Senate - 2010-11-02 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	Richard Blumenthal	Linda McMahon Linda McMahon	John Mertens	Warren Mosler	Carl E. Vassar	John M. Traceski	Todd Vachon	Matthew Coleman	Brian K. Hill	Jeff Russell	Jay J. Giles	Dave Olszta
Quinnipiac University	10/31	X 1.00000		53.0000 - 1.0754 bias	44.0000 - -0.2682 bias
Public Policy Polling	10/29	X 0.96667		54.0000 - 1.1680 bias	43.0000 - -0.1800 bias
YouGov	10/28	X 0.95000		52.7000 - 1.4134 bias	42.8000 - 0.0288 bias
Merriman River Group (MRG)	10/26	X 0.91667		51.8000 - -2.9714 bias	43.8000 - 4.0053 bias
Rasmussen Reports	10/24	X 0.88333		56.0000 - 0.4180 bias	43.0000 - 1.5977 bias
Suffolk University	10/20	X 0.81667		57.0000 - 1.6356 bias	39.0000 - -2.1317 bias	1.0000 - 0.4261 bias	2.0000 - 1.9497 bias
Pulse Opinion Research	10/9	X 0.63333		49.0000 - -0.2544 bias	43.0000 - 1.6194 bias
Opinion Research Corporation (CNN)	10/5	X 0.56667		54.0000 - 0.8608 bias	41.0000 - 0.4312 bias
TOTAL				53.100487	41.952416	0.573900	0.050300	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000