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Open Left once again has a post about Ed Fallon challenging Leonard Boswell in a primary in the 3rd district. They take a look at what PAC’s Boswell is getting money from and has some links about the race.

And finally, we have Ed Fallon challenging Bush Dog Leonard Boswell in Iowa. Boswell endorsed Clinton in the primary, an embarrassment showing he was out of step with his own constituents. Ed Fallon, the progressive primary challenger, is generating good headlines, radio, and TV, while Boswell is doing standard message-testing with polling in district for the June primary. Boswell has around $700k on hand, with about 74% of that coming from PACs, including your standard AT&T, Boeing, Conagra, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, the NRA, Raytheon, Verizon, and Walmart. There’s also a good amount of labor money, and a bunch from sitting members of Congress (including progressives), and most of the non-PAC money came from high dollar individuals.

Fallon says Boswell hurts Dems’ long-term prospects (Des Moines Register)

Fallon: Iowa voters want change (Associated Press)

Fallon run sparks blogs (Des Moines Register)

Ed Fallon says Leonard Boswell’s time is up in Third District seat”>Ed Fallon says Leonard Boswell’s time is up in Third District seat (The Daily Iowan)

Fallon says Boswell “status quo” politician who’ll fail in “change” election (Radio Iowa)

Primaries are really expensive, and Leonard Boswell has a lot of cash. The wild card here is whether outside groups will be a part of the race, and whether the overall change environment can impact lower ticket races. We’ll know more soon.

The netroots has been writing about and raising money for Donna Edwards in Maryland and Mark Pera in Illinois as they challenge incumbents in primaries that take place tomorrow. After they are done, there is a chance that Fallon’s candidacy becomes more talked about. Boswell is getting money from outside of Iowa from Corporate PAC’s and maybe Fallon will start getting money from real people through the netroots. This could even the playing field moneywise.

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