And national polls cannot predict an election in an individual district.
Recent polls predicted he would receive between 12 and 15 percent of the vote.
Final poll results in 2002 had predicted the party to win 9-10% of the total votes.
In the end, the race was not as close as the polls had predicted.
Polls predict the cartel will get about 43% of the votes.
The poll also predicted a high voter turnout of 96.9%.
As the campaign moved into the final two weeks, the polls and most political pundits predicted a Kennedy victory.
This month, the polls are predicting that he will.
Until about a month ago, polls predicted the party would win 40 or more seats, but its support has been slipping steadily.
Of course, any poll this far before an election may not remotely predict public sentiment next fall.
