As a complement to Matt Compton's essay about the blogosphere and Barack Obama in our Featured Content section, you might want to read a new Chris Bowers' OpenLeft post, which looks more closely at blog readers' preferences, and the factors that influence them, including demographics, high information consumption, and hostility to "bipartisanship" and to the Democratic status quo.

While you're at OpenLeft, you can also read Chris' predictions for the Democratic caucuses in Nevada. He thinks Obama may eke out a close win over Clinton, and cites the reasons, while acknowledging that all the late polls show Clinton ahead, albeit narrowly.

I think the truth is that we still know virtually nothing about likely turnout in Nevada, so making any prediction--and for that matter, taking any poll--is probably a crap-shoot, if you'll excuse the gambling reference.