More than Kucinich, Obama making Deals.......

From an Off the Bus Reporter at Huffpo, the night before the caucus, the deals with non viable candidates are in the works.

We have all been wondering for weeks now which way the non viable candidates were going to advise their supporters to go in the cases of less than 15% viability in the urban areas, and less than 25% in the rural areas. According to Beverly Davis There are deals being sussed out right now. Beverly Davis chatted with one of the Biden Campaign's national consultants that wanted to remain anonymous:

"A decision will be made tomorrow about who we'll encourage our supporters to stand behind if we aren't viable in a precinct. Right now, I'd guess Obama gets our support because we're more inline with his vision of foreign policy than any of the other candidates, and besides, we like him and how he's run his campaign."

"Is Biden angling for a Secretary of State position in an Obama Administration?"

The Biden consultant told Offthebus, "Well, Joe would make a great Secretary of State, wouldn't he?"

Biden's son, Joseph R. Biden, III is the current Attorney General for Delaware. Should Joe Biden resign his seat and accept a major post in the next Democratic Administration in Washington, his son is positioned to replace him in the U.S. Senate.

Interesting.....
Later Beverly Davis headed over to "Dos Rios" to float the story with some others and see what she could pick up.

Off-the-bus spoke with a national Obama staffer who confirmed, "We've heard that Richardson may also be telling his supporters to caucus for Barack if they aren't viable. Nothing definitive but there's a trend going on," she added with a smile. Ah, that's an understatement.

This could be misinformation from Obama, Biden, or Richardson people. Yes, it is rumor at this point because the reporter hasn't had anyone go on the record yet.
But.

But the fact that the rumors are flying and top aides are willing to discuss their thinking with Offthebus, albeit without disclosing their names, is still enough smoke to detect yet another spark that could ignite a fire under the Obama campaign's fortunes in the Iowa caucuses....None of the campaigns I spoke with - on or off the record - are prone to hand their support over to John Edwards, who is busy today flying around the state for his final push to win - and therefore, survive until New Hampshire, where his poll numbers continue to fall far behind either Clinton or Obama.

Where there's smoke there's fire? Maybe, we'll no soon enough.
It may take some deal making for ANY of the candidates to actually win. I saw Dodd on MSNBC today saying that he is opposed to deal making in the caucuses, and considers it insulting to the voters, a noble concept, but not realistic. This is how the caucus works.
If this is true, apparently, the Biden and Richardson camps might be seeing something in their internal polling that tells them that Obama could help them where they are just BARELY not viable, and he has some extra voters. It also could signal that perhaps Joe and Barack have had some discussions about the future. The one that really suprises me though is Richardson. I was firmly of the belief that he was a Clinton supporter after some of the Debates where he appeared to be rescuing her.
Discuss....