Poll Average Details- TX Governor - 2002-11-05 20:00:00

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	Rick Perry	Tony Sanchez	Rahul Mahajan	Jeff Daiell	Elaine Henderson	Earl W. "Bill" O'Neil
Zogby International	11/4	X 1.00000		58.0000 - 0.0434 bias	38.0000 - 0.8870 bias
Survey USA	11/1	X 0.95000		53.0000 - 0.3289 bias	43.0000 - 0.6566 bias
Scripps-Howard	10/29	X 0.90000		50.0000 - 1.4704 bias	35.0000 - 0.7029 bias
NBC5	10/27	X 0.86667		51.0000 - -2.8589 bias	38.0000 - 4.0429 bias
Fairbanks, Maslin, Maullin & Associates (D)	10/23	X 0.80000		44.0000 - -0.9285 bias	41.0000 - 2.0785 bias
KXAS-TV	10/22	X 0.78333		56.0000 - 8.0739 bias	29.0000 - -5.8429 bias
Blum & Weprin Associates	10/17	X 0.70000		50.0000 - -1.2293 bias	35.0000 - 1.3155 bias
TOTAL				51.282320	36.607677	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000