Does the General Election matter anymore?  That's what he's highlighting.  You can get all the Democrats votes you want, but you will never win an election if you can't appeal to independants and/or Republicans.  

And since you like polls, it is DEAD HEAT in Iowa between Edwards, Clinton and Obama.

And Obama is training people to canvass, NH this weekend.  Obama is slowly, but steadily coming up in the poll numbers.

And Q2, will really focus on who's got the real, JUICE.

and Repubs. Her core support comes from low info Dems who are nostalgic for the 90's.

Presumely this site is visited by "liberals and far-left liberals", and Hillary polls at 4%. She does not do "extremely well".

who many lost their jobs to "south of the boarder" in manufacturing, because of Bill Clinton's NAFTA?

Don't think this won't come up in the debates ahead.

Not do "extremely well". If he doesn't win some of these early big ones, its over.

and Obama is now going to union halls ect... making his point that the fact that he can appeal to independants makes him the better choice to advance thier issues. For Obama to get the nomination he must do 3 things.

1. really get the young enthusisatic voters to the polls in the primaries, I think he'll do that without too many problems, people don't go to rallies and donate money and thn don't show up

2. In the end get black voters to support him who were kind of waiting to see if he was for real and could actually win.

3. convince enough traditional democratic interest group voters that being able to bring some other voters to our table in an asset not a threat, he needs some people to put aside thier specific interests which no one can better play to than Hillary due to electability concerns. he doesn't need too many of these voters but he needs some, and the perception that Hillary wold have more trouble unifying the counrty behind her candidacy can be the thing that does it.

can't edwards do something about this?

if you read in between the lines clinton's Mark Penn is agressively cherry-picking the polls and sending it to the press every damn week.

edwards isn't being agressive. obama's guys too should start cherry-picking the polls like mark penn.

these guys(clinton's folks) are the new karl rove team. you can't play nice with them and expect them to play fair. i need to see some agressive media narrative driving from the obama and edwards camp.

They didn't do Edwards because he placed 4th in their poll (as he always does in QP). It's stupid of them to keep including Gore. But whatever.

They probably have a cutoff.  Edwards numbers are too low in this sample, and in many of these other samples where head-to-heads aren't included.  Gore even outpolls Edwards.  

The Ohio Poll came out today and said only 27% OF the electorate in OH is paying close attention to the 2008 campaign.

They looked at favorab;es/un-favorables for both Repub's and Democrats.