Poll Average Details- GA Governor - 2014-11-04 18:00:00

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	Nathan Deal	Jason Carter	Andrew Hunt	David C. Byrne
Public Policy Polling	11/3	X 1.00000		47.0000 - -0.1800 bias	43.0000 - 1.1680 bias	4.0000 - 1.4191 bias
Insider Advantage	11/2	X 0.98333		47.0000 - 0.0480 bias	44.0000 - -0.0455 bias	5.0000 - 0.9670 bias
Survey USA	11/2	X 0.98333		47.0000 - 0.3265 bias	42.0000 - 0.5274 bias	5.0000 - 1.3296 bias
Landmark Communications (R)	11/2	X 0.98333		50.8000 - -0.2052 bias	44.5000 - 0.2105 bias	2.5000 - 1.2448 bias
Marist Institute	10/31	X 0.95000		48.0000 - -0.4397 bias	43.0000 - 0.7635 bias	3.0000 - 4.1685 bias
YouGov	10/31	X 0.95000		45.2000 - 0.0288 bias	40.9000 - 1.4134 bias	1.1000 - 3.6071 bias
Monmouth University	10/28	X 0.90000		48.0000 - -0.9091 bias	42.0000 - 1.9679 bias	5.0000 - 0.8035 bias
Rasmussen Reports	10/27	X 0.88333		49.0000 - 1.5977 bias	43.0000 - 0.4180 bias
Abt SRBI	10/23	X 0.81667		46.0000 - -0.7883 bias	41.0000 - 0.1922 bias	5.0000 - 3.4234 bias
Opinion Research Corporation (CNN)	10/22	X 0.80000		46.0000 - 0.4312 bias	48.0000 - 0.8608 bias	6.0000 - 2.2808 bias
GAPundit.com	10/14	X 0.66667		44.3300 - -6.0437 bias	44.2600 - 1.4455 bias	6.1600 - 6.1133 bias
TOTAL				47.643904	42.386905	1.767816	0.000000