

'But I'm going to win Iowa ...'

Pindell scoops that Michele Bachmann's entire paid campaign team - roughly a half-dozen staffers - in New Hampshire has quit out of frustration with the campaign. They were going to do it even earlier, he reports, but didn't because it would have harmed the candidate.

More trouble for the floundering campaign of Michele Bachmann:

Well, sure. Because doing it now will give her dying campaign a major boost.

Bachmann's campaign denies the reports that her New Hampshire staff has quit:

“I just talked to two of them and they don’t know what’s going on” with the reports of a mass exodus, which echoed around the Internet, Keith Nahigian, the campaign manager, said in an interview between flights at the Detroit airport.

So, is it true or not? Who knows?

Staff members in New Hampshire could not be reached independently.

A late, hilarious update: