"It's been my experience in this business that the media doesn't report on internal polls," he said.

Or was he throwing in the towel after a new public poll showed him much further behind than his internal polls?

But the candidates' own internal polls, he added, "must show the race tightening in the last days, or they wouldn't be coming here."

Until then, he said, his internal polls showed that he might lose by as many as 1,500 votes.

Mr. Chocola said his own internal polls showed the race as a dead heat.

The party's six-week campaign will end with an internal poll of the 200,000 card-carrying members on Nov. 16.

There will also be 2,500 local and 20 internal polls monitors on the ground monitoring the elections.

I think they have internal polls that show them losing.

The New York Times says an internal poll has already shown a drop of 15 percentage points.

Immediately, upon taking office, Turner called a snap election, citing favourable internal polls.