It is strange that Edwards is the one trailing though. In past SUSA polls, we are using to seeing him be the one setting the pace and running much better than his rivals.

Looked at another way, Clinton and Obama have one lead each that's outside the margin of error, and Edwards has two. So if, as many of us predict, Giuliani tanks for the nomination, the most electable candidate in WI is Edwards.

Remember margins of error -- across all the polls, Edwards is doing better than the others, but we shouldn't be surprised to see scatter away from that average edge, as in this poll.

Annefrank - please take your crazy posts elsewhere.

Second of all, I've said it before and I'll say it again - Let's Go Mitt!!!!!

Both Obama and Edwards are trouncing Romney by 20plus points....why is Hillary basically running neck and neck with Romney, I wonder?

Why does Edwards up by 9 pts on Thompson and Obama up by 5pts on Thompson and Hillary again running in a dead heat with a narrow 2 point lead?

Even more interesting is that Guiliani while running in a virtual tie behind Hillary and Obama but is running ahead of Edwards by a thin margin.

These polls are indicative of a Democratic trend and that Wisconsin knows Obama. Hillary no longer has a big margin over Edwards or Obama when it comes to Wisconsin.

This bodes well for Obama. He can win this.

OMG, from annefrank's link:

"...When Mr. Follieri arrived in Manhattan in 2003, he had big ambitions. Citing the changing demographics of many U.S. Catholic dioceses and the litigation costs of the church's sex-abuse scandals, he told potential investors that the church needed to sell lots of property. Buying such properties and redeveloping them could help both the church and urban communities where many of properties were located -- and would produce tidy profits for investors, according to Follieri Group marketing material and presentations...."

Have these people found a way to make money off the sexual victimization of Catholic children? I just read, I think it was last week, about a nunnery in California having to be sold off. It's never the Vatican that pays for it's victimization of these children, it's the Catholic parishioners. And now it looks like the victimization is, in effect, turning a profit for politics. Once again, bad boundaries.

Remember margins of error -- across all the polls, Edwards is doing better than the others, but we shouldn't be surprised to see scatter away from that average edge, as in this poll.

Aren't we looking a bit too far ahead. Edwards should be concentrating on getting some momentum toward securing the nomination rather than looking at how strong he would be against the Repubs in GE. His purported strength for the GE would be moot unless he wins the nomination. Besides, this was tried before (the electability line) when polls showed HRC trailing the top Repubs in head-to-head match ups, and it did not work. It certainly won't work now because HRC has made up her deficit in the polls against the Repubs. Therefore, the equation that Edwards needs to solve is: how does he get from here to the GE, where he might well be the stronger candidate (I doubt that)?

To look at the head-to-head match-ups between the top tier Dems and Repubs and then to contend that Edwards is stronger GE candidate is just silly, especially since statistically the three Dems' numbers are NOT different at all!

Thank you. Really good points by both sides in the commentary----and a relief to me that tpm did not skip the story.