No, that ruins half the fun.

Instead, you are supposed to implement the years-old idea of adding a user setting to designate a personal 'portal node' (that defaults to The Gates) and having one's personal portal page display the nodelets configured as 'front page nodelets'.

Then you can have the poll nodelet only displayed when you look at Newest Nodes.

That way it doesn't spoil the surprise by making the new arrival obvious.