Poll Average Details- WI US Senate - 2016-11-08 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	Russ Feingold Russ Feingold	Ron Johnson Scattering	Phillip N. Anderson	Write-In	John T. Schiess
SurveyMonkey	11/7	X 1.00000		48.0000 - 2.5798 bias	49.0000 - -2.0483 bias
Clarity Campaign Labs	11/2	X 0.91667		49.0000 - 3.9429 bias	46.0000 - -1.3124 bias
Loras College	11/1	X 0.90000		47.0000 - 3.1867 bias	45.0000 - -1.2295 bias	2.0000 - 0.8422 bias
Public Policy Polling	11/1	X 0.90000		49.0000 - 1.3449 bias	44.0000 - -0.1911 bias
Marquette University Law School	10/31	X 0.88333		45.0000 - 0.9712 bias	44.0000 - -0.4419 bias
Emerson College	10/27	X 0.81667		49.0000 - 1.1507 bias	44.0000 - 0.4363 bias
McLaughlin & Associates (R)	10/20	X 0.70000		48.0000 - -3.4211 bias	46.0000 - 4.0805 bias
Monmouth University	10/18	X 0.66667		52.0000 - 2.2180 bias	44.0000 - -1.1567 bias	2.0000 - 0.7100 bias
St. Norbert College	10/16	X 0.63333		52.0000 - 2.4085 bias	40.0000 - -0.9458 bias
YouGov	10/7	X 0.48333		45.0000 - 1.4663 bias	42.0000 - -0.0047 bias
Gravis Marketing	10/4	X 0.43333		53.0000 - 1.6087 bias	41.0000 - -0.0717 bias
TOTAL				46.909765	44.893325	1.214055	0.000000	0.000000