Edmonsky, Sacramento, CA I beg to disagree with Michael van der Galien?s observations.  Even if DMR poll shows Senator Obama 10% behind Senator Clinton, it is not going to cause panic in Obama?s top campaign management camp.  Here is why.  There is no way to accurately poll caucus election with certainty due to many indeterminate variables.  It is not election where you tally votes and declare winners.  It is winning delegates at the precinct levels.  For instance, there are 1780 precincts and if you poll 1,000 people, you are polling less than one person per precinct.  Based on 2004 Democratic caucus, 124,000 people participated at 70-persons per precinct.  Winning a precinct depends on the effectiveness and dynamism of a given Precinct Captain.  A Precinct Captain who has good public relation touch to convince over 50-people to participate in his or her Precinct would more than likely to win first or second place for candidate.   Senator Obama has serious and accomplished caucus veterans working for him in Iowa.  For instance, Paul Tewes, Obama?s Iowa campaign director, was Caucus Manager for Al Gore?s Iowa campaign in 2000; Steve Hildebrand, the man who designed Obama?s Iowa field organization, was Al Gore?s Iowa campaign manager in 2000; John Norris, Obama?s Iowa advisor, was Senator John Kerry?s Iowa campaign manager in 2004; Emily Parcell, Obama?s Iowa political director, was credited with helping Democrats strip Republicans of the majority in both houses last year and a native of Iowa.  Currently, Obama?s campaign is no more accepting out of state?s volunteers to come to Iowa.  All these do not point to any sign of desperation.  These aforementioned people are all winners in Iowa caucus elections in 2000 and 2004.

Bill W Michael, like your blog and most of the articles, and am extremely impressed with your deep knowledge and interest in all things American, especially the political process.  (Some day you will have to tell us how a Dutch guy developed both).  But I am telling you, you are putting way too much time, effort & credence into these polls - they are proven inaccurate by far election after election (unless as you stated once there is a large diparity - then they are at least directionally right, just not magnitudinally).  And too much time in Iowa- the governor of Ohio was correct today - these caucuses are undemocratic, give way too much weight to party insiders, no weight to independents, and as I posted a few days ago - have been pretty much wrong as a bell-cow. 

Larry It seems the Obama  coverage has dwindled somewhat, as Hillary the anointed candidate by the media still gets the better coverage.

John Morgan 32-25-24.  Guess we can put this one to bed.