What did national Democrats' polls find on Sen. Elizabeth Dole?
That question was put to Dome by some of our Republican readers, who find the three polls on her approval rating released publicly so far to be less than credible. (Democrats felt likewise about Dole's own poll.)
All right, the readers challenged. If the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sees Dole's seat as a potential pickup in 2008, then surely it has polled North Carolinians. If it found low approval ratings, it surely would have trumpeted them.
Their logic recalls the famous Sherlock Holmes' story about the dog that didn't bark.
So we put it to DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller. He wouldn't comment on whether the group has done any polling on Dole, but he said it wouldn't necessarily release it if it had.
"All of the polls I've seen put her approval rating in the 40s," he said. "They can come up with any type of explanation they want to spin it away, but the numbers are the numbers."
In other words, the dog may not bark, but he says it don't hunt either.
