thanks to hannes, we found a quick way to enable a macro that displays a poll inside a story. below is a first test created by the macro of the form <% poll id="poll_number" %>. please be aware that this macro still can be subject to changes.

currently, if you are logged in you should be able to vote, otherwise you only will see a link to the poll.

it is also possible to display the link to the poll, generally, using the same macro but additionally the paramter as="link".

finally, use as="results" to show the poll results only. latter are also shown if the macro id refers to an already closed poll.

as you might have noticed, this is actually a poll from another weblog. this is possible by using a slash notation in the id parameter like id="weblog_alias/poll_number", in this case id="project/2".