However, public and private polls have showed her slipping in recent weeks.

Obviously, candidates (or corporations, for that matter) need their own private polls to see what to offer and how.

His own private polls showed Fowler ahead by fourteen points.

"But this is the first private or public poll with a margin like this."

Asked how things stand now, he replied, "I've seen private polls that show it dead even."

It also came at a time when some private polls by politicians have suggested that the race might be getting tight.

In early private polls, a majority of people backed the initiative.

Our wayward ways are scripts, or the results of private polls.

Another private poll last month, he added, had the electorate equally split.

He heard that from individual voters and read about it in his private polls.