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Good morning, Washington. As we slowly and steadily make our way to the September 14 primary finish line, there’s more polling to talk about. The Washington Post released the results of its survey on the city’s other important elections, and the results were decisive (Kwame Brown holds a sizable lead over Vincent Orange in the race for Council Chair) and truly shocking (seemingly untouchable At-Large Councilmember Phil Mendelson has really lost a lot of ground to Michael D. Brown). We’ll have a full report on the results later this morning. Of course, for 1,094 Washingtonians, these poll numbers won’t really make a whole lot of difference — that’s the number of people who voted early yesterday.

Disruption on the Cialis Line: People who signed up to receive emails from WMATA regarding rail and bus disruptions had been getting a little bit more in their inboxes the past few days: spam. WMATA admitted that the service was hacked, and had been sending out emails containing malicious links since Sunday — the third-party vendor which WMATA uses to manage the service just needed to change its login. What do you want to bet the password was something like “12345”?

Code Red, Code Red: Today is a Code Red air quality day for most of the Washington metropolitan region, which means that most residents should avoid prolonged or heavy exertion outside today. The District’s DMV Inspection station will close at 1 p.m. today as a result.

MoCo to Pepco, PSC: You Stink: Montgomery County residents had their chance to rip into Pepco and the Maryland Public Service Commission last night at a public forum in Rockville, and boy, did they turn out. Everyone had horror stories to share: the Silver Spring resident who had a power line snap on his front lawn and spark a six-foot fire, a woman with an autistic child who has to uproot to a hotel when said child gets scared during outages, buildings with large populations of seniors who have had 14 fair-weather power outages. There’s now even a handy motto: “It’s not an outage, it’s an outrage.” The PSC has ordered Pepco to turn over internal documents about the utility’s infrastructure; Prince George’s County gets their chance to gripe on Thursday.

24 Hours in Trinidad: Dan Zak delivers the must-read of the morning, a fantastic profile of Trinidad as experienced through 24 hours at the Capital City Diner. Read the whole thing.

Briefly Noted: Man shot and killed on 4400 block of F Street SE last night…Tragic: nine-year-old Va. girl dies after being hit by car while riding bike…Marylanders can vote early too, you know…Yes, traveling on Labor Day will probably be annoying…If elected, would Vince Gray cede authority of streetcars to an independent entity?…Scenes from the Capital Bikeshare warehouse.

This Day in DCist: Last year, Marion Barry made the cover of The Weekly Standard, and in 2006, Mayor Adrian Fenty’s biggest concerns were less poll-related and more shiny scalp-related.