Poll Average Details- FL US Senate - 2010-11-02 23:00:00

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	Marco A. Rubio Marco A. Rubio	Charlie Crist	Kendrick B. Meek Kendrick B. Meek	Alexander Andrew Snitker	Piotr Blass	Bernie DeCastro	Belinda Noah	Howard W. Knepper	Lewis Jerome Armstrong	Sue Askeland	Bobbie Bean	George Drake	Carol LaRosa	Richard Lock	Robert Monroe	Bruce Ray Riggs	Rick Tyler
YouGov	10/31	X 1.00000		45.5000 - 0.0288 bias	34.1000 - 2.7075 bias	15.2000 - 1.4134 bias
Quinnipiac University	10/31	X 1.00000		45.0000 - -0.2682 bias	31.0000 - 3.2704 bias	18.0000 - 1.0754 bias
Rasmussen Reports	10/27	X 0.93333		50.0000 - 1.5977 bias	30.0000 - 1.5417 bias	16.0000 - 0.4180 bias
Ipsos-Public Affairs	10/19	X 0.80000		41.0000 - -21.0260 bias	26.0000 - -14.7658 bias	20.0000 - -19.3724 bias
Opinion Research Corporation (CNN)	10/19	X 0.80000		46.0000 - 0.4312 bias	32.0000 - 2.9447 bias	20.0000 - 0.8608 bias
Suffolk University	10/17	X 0.76667		39.0000 - -2.1317 bias	31.0000 - 1.2514 bias	22.0000 - 1.6356 bias	2.0000 - 1.1435 bias
Public Policy Polling	10/10	X 0.65000		44.0000 - -0.1800 bias	33.0000 - 7.1017 bias	21.0000 - 1.1680 bias
Mason-Dixon	9/22	X 0.35000		40.0000 - 0.8543 bias	28.0000 - -0.1282 bias	23.0000 - 0.4277 bias
Pulse Opinion Research	9/11	X 0.16667		43.0000 - 1.6194 bias	27.0000 - -0.0380 bias	21.0000 - -0.2544 bias
Voter Survey Service (R)	9/7	X 0.10000		43.0000 - 0.3855 bias	29.0000 - 0.0003 bias	23.0000 - -0.0542 bias
TOTAL				48.423806	31.363579	22.508583	0.856500	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000