Poll Average Details- LA Governor - Initial Election - 2015-10-24 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.

PollMid DateTime WeightInternal John Bel Edwards David Vitter Scott Angelle Jay Dardenne Cary J. Deaton S L Simpson Jeremy "JW" Odom Beryl Billiot Eric Paul Orgeron
Multi-Quest10/13X 1.00000   32.0000 - 0.6773 bias 24.0000 - -0.9054 bias 10.0000 - -0.9054 bias 10.0000 - -0.9054 bias          
Clarus Research Group9/23X 0.66667   24.0000 - -0.4922 bias 24.0000 - 1.7266 bias 15.0000 - 1.7266 bias 14.0000 - 1.7266 bias          
Public Policy Polling9/22X 0.65000   28.0000 - 1.3449 bias 27.0000 - -0.1911 bias 15.0000 - -0.1911 bias 14.0000 - -0.1911 bias          
Triumph Campaigns (R)9/18X 0.58333   35.0000 - 3.7240 bias 29.0000 - 0.2762 bias 12.0000 - 0.2762 bias 11.0000 - 0.2762 bias          
MarblePort Polling (R)9/16X 0.55000  X 1/2 19.5000 - -3.3165 bias 23.8000 - 1.6294 bias 20.6000 - 1.6294 bias 9.5000 - 1.6294 bias 1.6000 - -3.3165 bias 1.1000 - -3.3165 bias 1.0000 - 0.3591 bias 0.3000 - 0.3591 bias 1.1000 - 1.1995 bias
TOTAL 28.187565 25.285359 13.128928 11.569086 4.916500 4.416500 0.640900 -0.059100 -0.099500