With speaking gigs like Norm Coleman’s, you’d be polling too

If Norm Coleman is not doing polling to probe his prospects for the 2010 Minnesota governor’s race — as one report today says he is, despite his denial — then new evidence on YouTube suggests he should be.

Since conceding his former U.S. Senate seat to Al Franken last summer, Coleman has given the occasional address and seminar at Harvard University, where he’s a fellow.

But American Action Network, the ”do-tank” he is supposed to helm, hasn’t done anything yet — in public anyway.

That leaves Coleman time for ho-hum public speaking engagements like the talk he gave to the Washington Energy and Defense Alliance in October (pdf), which the newly formed organization just got around to posting on YouTube.

Take a look: Running for office has to be more fun than dusting off Norman Vincent Peale quotes for a half-empty conference room in Seattle.

Online complaints about the phone number from which the polling call originated make it sound like the polling outfit’s ideology at least matches Coleman’s leanings.