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HARTFORD, Conn. — The spokesman for a Connecticut congressional candidate is learning that not everything is private on the Internet.

On Sept. 30, a University of Connecticut poll showed Republican Sean Sullivan trailing Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney by 27 percentage points. Then Sullivan's spokesman Andrew Powaleny told reporters the campaign believed it could win in November and questioned the poll's sampling size.

But on the networking site Twitter, Powaleny posted a message to a friend about the poll that said, "Told you it was a lost cause."

He also told the friend he would e-mail the statement he gave the media explaining the numbers.

"You'll laugh," Powaleny said.

Powaleny insisted the post was nothing more than a sarcastic remark.

"It was a joke and nothing more than that," he said.

Powaleny criticized Courtney's campaign for sending reporters a link to The Day of New London blog that first reported his Twitter comments.

"The only reason why they're bringing this up is they don't have a record to run on," he said.

Brian Farber, a spokesman for Courtney's campaign, didn't deny sending the link but said Courtney does not plan to make it an issue.

"Congressman Courtney has far more important things to be concerned about than the public rantings of a senior Sullivan staffer," he said.