The other day Steve Kornacki was hearing the Coakley internal poll had her trailing by 3 percentage points, while I was hearing it had the race dead even. I figured it was something getting lost as this bit of information travels through the grapevine, but he sheds some light: “The numbers I reported were from individual nights, Thursday and Wednesday. Her three-night average — as of Thursday night — did show a dead even race, which I can only assume is what was being reported elsewhere.”

The latest he’s hearing is that the internals show Scott Brown leading by 2 percentage points.

Obviously, Brown fans would prefer to hear he’s ahead by more, but they’ll take any lead . . .