Poll Average Details- VT Governor - 2016-11-08 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	Phil Scott Phil Scott	Sue Minter Sue Minter	Bill "Spaceman" Lee	Bernie Sanders	Write-In	Matt Dunne	Peter W. Galbraith	Bruce Lisman
SurveyMonkey	11/7	X 1.00000		47.0000 - -2.2024 bias	51.0000 - 2.6000 bias
Red Racing Horses (R)	10/26	X 0.80000		45.0000 - -0.0966 bias	38.0000 - 0.0404 bias	4.0000 - 0.3629 bias
Braun Research	10/22	X 0.73333		47.0000 - -4.2424 bias	40.0000 - 3.9753 bias	4.0000 - 1.2341 bias
Castleton Polling Institute	10/14	X 0.60000		39.0000 - -7.2674 bias	38.0000 - 8.2880 bias	2.0000 - -0.1494 bias
TOTAL				48.069536	39.259466	2.919209	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000