Never thought of using the Poll Creator for an in-post +1 indicator (or for in-post anything, really). Think every day, though, that it'd be nice if we could have a Like (or thumbs-up) button (we already have the latter, as you might recall from one of my previous CSS forays in which I exposed comment title icons so they can be selected without clicking around to find them).

So now I'm thinking *waves smoke out of ears* if I could modify this to use DW's native (or any non-native) thumbs-up image in place of the +1, and how to force the whole thing into the bottom meta bar so it displays automatically with every post (would require an s2/Perl solution). Huh. Thank you for sharing this!