quayle_turkeyWe’ve noticed before how the Arizona Republic didn’t take much interest in Little Benny Quayle’s involvement with a porny web site, Dirty Scottsdale.

Skanky sex, a famous political name…those aren’t the sorts of things the media should be interested in.

Now we can see the paper’s not interested in any bad news about Quayle.

Yesterday, a reputable polling company released numbers on the District 3 race. (The company is Public Policy Polling.)

It said Quayle was trailing opponent Jon Hulburd, 46 to 44.

Worse, it gave Quayle a 52 percent unfavorable rating.

Is this news?

Politico this a.m. has a lede story booming “99 Dem House Seats in Danger—that is to say, it’s not a good time to be a Democrat running for Congress.

District 3 went for McCain by a 57 to 42 margin—that is to say, it’s a solidly GOP district.

But nothing about it in the Republic this a.m. Columnist Laurie Roberts, however, did do a blog post:

The poll of 655 likely voters included more Republicans than Democrats and respondents favored Sen. John McCain by a wide margin over Rodney Glassman. Those aspects would seem in line with the district’s partisan makeup and its presumed political loyalties in another race.

But home readers of the paper—the ones who are clustered in the upscale developments in northeast Phoenix, where this battle is being fought—aren’t let in on the news.