August 22, 2009 06:48 PM UTC

Post Isn't Playing Early Poll Guessing Games

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Denver Post’s Lynn Bartels writes for Politics West:

A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows Scott McInnis beating Josh Penry in the GOP gubernatorial race next year, but the Denver Post has held back on reporting outside polls.

For a host of reasons we’ve been clear on all week, we think it’s a responsible decision. We’ll talk more about candidate polls, like the Post will, when they’re gauging opinions relevant to the coming election. Better polls, more of them, (and above all) once the public is actually paying attention again–then there will be a story worth writing.

Of course there are beneficiaries of any particular poll who won’t agree, and will argue for these numbers to be shouted from the rooftops–persuasively? Uh, well…

Mike Hesse, a McInnis strategist, tried a different tack today.

“If I had Scott yell at the pollster with the radio on would you print the poll?” he asked.

Fun-ny!