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WASHINGTON Ñ In the past two months, Senator Barack Obama has built a commanding coalition among Democratic voters, with especially strong support among men, and is now viewed by most Democrats as the candidate best able to beat Senator John McCain in the general election, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Notice it doesn't say that polls show Obama can beat McCain -- just that "most Democrats" think he can.

And why shouldn't they? That's what the Times, and the rest of the media, have been selling for months.

For a little reality, a reader has to skip down 6 paragraphs:

These national polls are not predictive of the Democratic candidatesÕ standings in individual states, notably Ohio and Texas, which hold the next primaries, on March 4. Most recent polls there show a neck-and-neck race in Texas and Mrs. Clinton with a lead in Ohio...

Oh yes, Poor Readers, the media has really got the push going, trying to hustle the ball over the goal line for Obama before the 4th. With a week to go, they're printing page 1 stories that report not on actual race polls or results, but on what they've managed to convince people.

If they succeed, it's win-win for them, and the rest of the corpora-kleptocracy: McCain vs. Obama.

And it will be among the greatest and most unlikely defeats for Democrats, and democracy, ever.