An e-mail they’re sending around:

Subject: Blunt Train Steaming…
Blunt claims momentum in GOP leadership race
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANDREW TAYLOR
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Missouri Republican Roy Blunt claimed Thursday to be just short of the tally required to succeed embattled former Majority Leader Tom DeLay as the No. 2 Republican in the House, even as a potential dark horse candidate mulled a race.
Blunt issued a statement claiming more than 100 supporters in the race, though his roster of supporters willing to make their names public contains fewer than 70 lawmakers. To win the race to replace DeLay, R-Texas, requires 116 votes, a majority of the 231 member House GOP conference.
Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., was inching toward a decision on whether to join the race, saying candidates Blunt and Rep. John Boehner won’t move aggressively enough to drive the party, which is shaken by ethics scandals, out of its doldrums.
An aide to Boehner said the Ohio Republican and chairman of the Education and the Workforce Committee has 86 committed supporters.
Neither candidate’s claim could be verified. Given the dynamics of the election, which is conducted by secret ballot, it is possible that one or both claims are inflated. Before Thursday, Blunt and Boehner would only reveal publicly declared supporters, and the release of the new claims of support seemed in part designed to discourage new entrants into the race.