The campaign of Russ Feingold insists that Scott Rasmussen’s latest poll, showing a close race, must be false because Scott is going on the NR cruise.

Er, sure.

Hey, guys? A Wisconsin Policy Research Institute poll in March had Feingold trailing against one opponent, Tommy Thompson.

The Daily Kos poll — back before they dropped Research 2000 — had Feingold with an unspectacular 53 percent favorable, 41 percent unfavorable. Feingold’s highest percentage against any opponent in the Kos poll was 53 percent.

Public Policy Polling had Feingold at a “meh” 45 percent job approval, 41 percent job disapproval split in March.

A close Senate race in Wisconsin isn’t as unthinkable as these Democrats would like to pretend.