More cautious optimism for Obama supports: Dennis Kucinich has instructed his supporters to vote for Obama on the second ballot—though in fairness it must be noted that Kucinich's support in Iowa is significantly shallower than it was in 2004, when he struck a similar deal with John Edwards.

The real question is this: what will Biden, Dodd, and Richardson do?

Dennis Kucinich, king of spin: how Dennis Kucinich remade himself from race-baiting bomb-thrower to liberal sweetheart. As a pro-Obama-or-Edwards progressive and former resident of Cleveland, I found this article really interesting, though it's quite a smearjob and I'm sure I'd be pretty unhappy about it if it had been launched against one of my preferred candidates.

"If you are mayor, you have to do things," says Mike Roberts, The Plain Dealer's former city editor. "There was nothing that he did of any success, unless it was self-serving."

City dwellers who could afford to flee did so in droves. Everyone else was holding on for dear life. "The town had a nervous breakdown during [Kucinich's] mayoralty," Larkin says. "He wore everybody out."

Yet almost 30 years later, Kucinich has managed to recast this period as his greatest triumph. In the revised telling, this isn't a story of a mayor who hurled the city into chaos with startling swiftness. It's a rewritten David and Goliath tale, with Kucinich playing the role as the only man with the cojones to stand up to corruption and nefarious corporations. His presidential campaign paints a man of sturdy principles, unsinkable optimism, and untainted liberal bona fides — a mythology now being regurgitated by everyone from supporters to the national media.

Dennis Kucinich has seen a UFO, says TPM by way of Shirley McClaine. Via MetaFilter, which also has the Robbers Cave psychological experiment and the worst mayor in America.

This script will pick your 2008 candidate for you, but if you're like the 99% of the people who read this blog who aren't obligatory derogatory noun Republicans, you're likely to be as disappointed as I was when it tells you to vote for Kucinich. Via MeFi, where everyone is being told to vote for Kucinich, too.