Green Bay Area Newspapers

While Rep. Mark Green has to run ads in his base trying to convince people he is not too extreme, one of his home area papers is doing what it can to help him.

The Appleton-Post Crescent has a section in the Sunday paper about elections going on around the state. They had a small story about the race for governor. It started by saying that the polling showing Governor Doyle with a large lead over Green doesn't mean that Doyle is going to win.

Fair enough. Polling this far out doesn't predict a winner.

The story pointed out some good news for Green and then shifted to the Democratic side. And that's where they help came in.

Even when the paper is reporting good news for the Dems, they try to make it not so bad for Green.

On a positive note for the Democratic camp, the most recent poll, conducted by Rasmussen Reports, gives Doyle his greatest show of support since December when the same pollster found he edged Green 45 to 39 percent.

Notice how they couldn't bring themselves to post the new numbers from Rasmussen that have the numbers at 49 percent for Doyle and Green at 41 percent. The new numbers are a little too close to 50 percent so they put in the old numbers.