I just read yesterday's SUSA poll numbers for Virginia. Pollster.com summarizes them as follows:

A new SurveyUSA poll in Virginia shows Sen. Barack Obama edging Sen. John McCain, 49% to 47%.

Just a month ago, Obama led McCain by 7 points in the state.

Reading this, you might think that McCain was doing well in the state. You would be wrong. More below.

Warning! This is one of those diaries with just a couple of links and shamefully little content! But the content is juicy, I promise...see below!

According to a report in today's New York Times, an alarming number of American soldiers have been killed or injured by electrocution. How has this happened? Because of faulty wiring installed by Kellogg, Brown and Root, which has received massive maintenance contracts in Iraq with virtually no government oversight. More Below.

As someone who spent a month working for the Obama campaign in Iowa, and who has nothing but contempt for the way shallow and disengenuous way Hillary Clinton has run her presidential campaign, I nonetheless believe with all my heart that attacking Clinton on the issue of the Bosnia "Sniper Fire" trip is complete and utter bullshit.

A recent recommended diary states that the main reason Obama did his diaries on the Rezko trial is because he's clearing the decks to go on the offensive against Clinton. Although clearing the decks for an attack is a secondary benefit of doing the interviews, the main reasons he did the interviews at this moment are obvious yet unnoticed. More Below.

Hey what happened? We lost that Mississippi voting thread from the recommended list. Where are the crackheads who want to hear every obscure rumor about how the Mississippi primary is going?

The history of Democrats ripping each other to pieces during a presidential campaign has enough length to fill several encyclopedias. This is not a "can't we all just get along" diary--It's just to note that there's nothing that Democrats do better than attacking each other.

In case you missed it, Glenn Greenwald just wrote a brilliant article for Salon that outlined one of the main reasons she should not be our nominee against John McCain this fall. The premise is that Clinton's entire strategy against will not involve challenging McCain on the Iraq War and the role of our military in general. More below.

On the night that Obama is speaking to a huge crowd in St. Louis a new poll is out showing him leading for the first time in Missouri. More below.

I've seen many John Edwards supporters on these boards frustrated that John Edwards hasn't been able to do better in the early caucus and primary states. It seems inexplicable to many of them that the clear and powerful Edwards message hasn't been able to gain more traction. Much of their anger is focused on the press, which has clearly given the lion's share of its attention to Clinton and Obama. But while this clearly hasn't helped Edwards, and whether one attributes this to the corporate media being threatened by the Edwards agenda, or to the media finding a black man/white woman feud to be a better ratings getter, or to the old vicious circle of better results equals more media attention, and more media attention equals better results, I think there is something much more basic at play. The explosion of new voters in this primary season has been devastingly bad for the Edwards campaign. More below.

[Disclaimer: The author is an Obama supporter, with Edwards as his second choice. This isn't a diary about the worthiness of ideas; it's a horse race diary about why Edwards isn't winning.]

If there's a loser bigger than Hillary Clinton in tonight's primary, it's the American Research group (ARG). How is it possible to get things so wrong? More below.

[Disclaimer: This is not an issues diary. This is a diary about vote math.]

By this title, I mean that while Obama won the delegate count by 8%, his margin in the Iowa "popular" vote was certainly higher than that. This is because in the Iowa caucuses, new caucusers simply don't count as much previous caucusers. How is this so? See below.

Mid-level elves in Santa's campaign have been found to be distriubting anti-Frosty flyers to certain North Pole union locals. More below the fold.

It's a stock story in the mainstream that writers pull out every primary season--Voters wishing that the candidates wouldn't be so negative. Look around and you'll see them on CNN or MSNBC when they need a few minutes to fill. If look at the daily spate of I hate x candidate diaries (or their close cousins, the I hate x candidate because x candidate is hating on my candidate), you'd think the candidates were ready to kill each other.

The truth is, this has been one of the most pleasant and positive primary seasons of recent times. More below.

After Joe Klein's revision/retraction of his ridiculous column stating that the Democratic FISA proposal gave rights to terrorists, I thought that the repetition of this nonsense in the mainstream media was over. I was wrong. See below.

Ok, I just scanned nytimes.com and I saw an interesting story headline:

House Panel Raises Furor on Armenian Genocide

But it was the story summary blurb that caught my eye. More below.

In case you missed it, Rahm Emanuel penned an op-ed piece in today's New York Times that can best be described as asinine and wrongheaded. The piece was a passionate defense of earmarks. For those who missed it:

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Commentary below.

Like many people here, I expected a bit of a slugfest on this morning's Meet the Press segment. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Markos stuck to his guns without having the segment degenerate into a brawl.

More below.