Questions for Obama supporters in the third disrict

Earlier today, TheRealWorld posted this in a comment:

The obama people and the IDP are dreading the fact that fallon might win this because of the massive amounts of problems that would cause to have a congressional candidate that cannot buy into the coordinated campaign and would cause the RNCCC to just spend money widely here. I know the obama people arent breaking for him in the numbers he needs because the obama people have been keeping there people in check and the boswell people have gone after them hard. they may be pissed about the clinton thing but since that is over now hopefully they wont hold it against him. Especially since they need the boswell cross over of veterans and republicans for obama to win this district and state in the general

Obama supporters, were you hearing from Obama precinct captains, delegates, or volunteers that Fallon winning the primary would make it harder for Obama to carry Iowa?

Was there any organized effort by people affiliated with the Obama campaign to steer rank and file supporters toward Boswell for this reason?

Were you hearing this argument from Boswell field organizers or volunteers?

An Obama precinct captain I met recently told me that many of the Obama delegates at the third distict convention were supporting Boswell because he is “good enough.” She did not mention the points raised by TheRealWorld, though.

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  • I was an obama captain, and worked for Fallon

    The Obama people I know were mixed.

    • I know they were split

      I am just wondering whether this particular argument (that a Fallon victory would make it harder for Obama to win Iowa in November) was salient among Obama supporters.

      • I did not hear it

        The argument I heard from the Obama/Boswell people is Nader and that Fallon does not know how to compromise and is a mite (or a lot) sanctimonious.

      • I did not hear this argument

        at all.  Most Obama supporters I know were for Fallon, but that’s probably more due to the kinds of people I hang out with rather than being a representative sampling of Obama supporters.

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