We know local newscasts love pointing you to their various websites. It can be tedious given the myriad slogans. But the online polls have always been a hoot.

Consider the polls that went up Monday, all of them asking in various formats whether Sen. Harry Reid should resign for his remarks in 2008 about Barack Obama being "light-skinned" and with "no Negro dialect."

Fox 5 called it an "embarrassing 'negro' remark. You'd think the Yesses would have it. But no, this online poll, like many other non-scientific ones trotted out by Nevada news media has become the latest in the typical partisan tit-for-tat that all viewers to all stations say they're sick of.

We grabbed this snapshot of Fox 5's poll late Tuesday morning. And the most startling thing about it are the nearly 5,000 votes, evenly split between the choices.

Could it be that the Reid campaign urged its supporters to vote in this poll and several other similar ones? You bet.

Could it be that several of the GOP candidates have been off in new media land urging votes on the very same polls? You bet.

We find it hard to believe that many loyal viewers of Fox 5 News. Local. Las Vegas. would actually leave their TV sets, log in to their desktop, go to the site and take the poll. And believe us, loyal local newscast followers definitely would have to go log in to their desktop.

American Idol doesn't premiere until tonight, after all.