Based on the polls — including one from The Des Moines Register released on Saturday evening that showed Mr. Gingrich in fourth place, a long tumble from the top in the paper's previous poll a month ago — he could use it.
While DCF is based on the contention-based CSMA/CA mode of channel access, PCF is based on the polling mechanism.
Based on the polls, it appeared that Ohio was the state most likely to win Mr. Obama his 270th electoral vote.
But a double-digit loss, as seems possible based on the polls, is a decidedly subpar result for them.
Conversely, Geoffrey Garin, a Democratic pollster, said the coverage, based on the polls, set Mr. Kerry up for a fall.
"This is for the people who don't feel they need to vote, based on the polls and the money and everything," Mr. Lugossy said.
The FiveThirtyEight forecast model, which is based on the polls, projects about a 9-point win for him and gives him an 88 percent chance of victory.
Based on the polls I've seen, it's not true, as Dr. Levine asserts, that "there is a large body of moderate Republicans".
Based on the polling out through Saturday evening, Newt Gingrich had become a clear underdog to Mitt Romney in the Florida primary.
What we can say with absolute certainty based on the polling data is that a lot of Americans are going to wake up disappointed on Wednesday.
