By wplog

Published Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007 | 3:40 p.m.

Updated Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 | 2:14 p.m.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's approval rating among Nevadans is either 32 percent or 56 percent, depending on the poll.

Now a third poll is offering another snapshot.

The Reno-Gazette Journal is reporting today that Reid's approval ratings are at 39 percent, according to a survey done for the paper this month. The paper's Anjeanette Damon blogs about the poll.

Reid's office refuses to believe the lower numbers, just as it dismissed the October Review-Journal poll putting him at 32 percent. Reid's pollster, the nationally known Mark Mellman, puts the senator's popularity at 56 percent.

Check out the Sun's story on what to make of differing polls.

Reid's spokesman, Jon Summers, said this latest poll "doesn't provide a true read" because a large percentage of those surveyed are voters planning to participate in the upcoming presidential caucuses. That would mean the respondents are more partisan than the average Joe.

Reid's office had the same complaint about those polled in the earlier newspaper survey.

"No one has ever done more for Nevada than Senator Reid," said Summers, listing the senator's ability to bring federal funds to the state and block the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump. "And Nevadans know it."