Desmoinesdem has the latest on the Fallon-Boswell race below, and is not confident in Fallon's chances. I spoke with Fallon's campaign manager last night, and she believes and has data to suggest that Boswell is in trouble. It's going to be a low turnout affair, and Boswell has backed Clinton whereas Fallon has backed Obama. And she raises the good point about Boswell, which is that he hasn't fully released any internal polls, a weird trend if a candidate is doing well. On the other hand, there has been one public poll in the race, and Fallon was down by a little more than twenty points in April.
Bill Clinton calls Todd Purdum, the reporter who published the hit piece in Vanity Fair, a scumbag and said that Purdum has done bad journalism since Whitewater.
John Bresnahan has a good profile of Pelosi's consolidation of power in the House, over such status quo stalwarts as Steny Hoyer, Rahm Emanuel, and Jim Clyburn.
Jonathan S. Landay at McClatchy report that both Obama and McCain are exaggerating the threat from Iran.
The presumptive Republican nominee for president and the leading contender for the Democratic nomination are exaggerating what's known about Iran's nuclear program as they duel over how best to deal with Tehran.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., say that Iran is developing nuclear weapons.
The U.S. intelligence community, however, thinks that Iran halted an effort to build a nuclear warhead in mid-2003, and the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency, which is investigating the program, has found no evidence to date of an active Iranian nuclear-weapons project.
Jordan Fabian and Bob Cusack report that superdelegates like Jason Altmire are ready to break for Obama at the end of the week.
Obama has a historical debt to Harold Ickes because of his work liberalizing and opening the primary process in the 1960s and 1970s. I'll add that Ickes was the floor manager for the vicious 1980 convention fight between Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, which ultimately got rid of the robot rule forcing delegates to vote for the person they pledged to.
The big question is when Clinton bows out of the race, and there are splits at the top of the campaign about this question. What are you reading?
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