Lots of blogs out there do reader polls. But it's not terribly meaningful when a liberal blog tells you 90 percent of its readers support a single payer option for health care.

Voila: Here at PubliCola we've decided to hire a professional pollster to do a real, in-the-field poll. We'll be polling a question about a hot local race and will have the professional, real, in-the-field results for you next week.