2020 Iowa Caucus results thread

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First up, the TYT live stream...

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Majority Report's live coverage....

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And that Des Moines Register poll that got held back over the weekend. Now we know why.... because it had Biden in a distant FOURTH place, behind Bernie, Warren, and Mayo Pete.

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Andrew Yang's slogan is "MATH" and it seems his supporters in Iowa have done their math......

Huge round of applause in Dubuque Precinct 9A as @AndrewYang backers move as a group to caucus with @BernieSanders group.@thenation pic.twitter.com/yIDzeQGBWP

— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) February 4, 2020

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And that Des Moines Register poll that got held back over the weekend. Now we know why.... because it had Biden in a distant FOURTH place, behind Bernie, Warren, and Mayo Pete.

Oh please Ford, he's only distant anything in college towns...

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The app is fucked up apparently, which doesn't really bode well for Democratic politics...

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Now claiming that the system didn't go down and there was no hack, but that there were "inconsistencies" with three reporting districts and they want to confirm with the paper-trail...

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Their "hotline" is down, too. A ready-made excuse for the candidate that finishes last.

Shawn Sebastian, a precinct secretary in Story County, was live on CNN as he simultaneously sat on hold with the the Iowa Democrats, attempting to report his county's results.

Just a moment into his call to CNN, the party picked up — and then the line got disconnected.

"I have been on hold for over an hour with the Iowa Democratic Party," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. He said that they first tried to use an app, but that didn't work. They then turned to a hotline.

"We've been recommended to call in to the hotline, and the hotline has not been responsive," he said.

In that moment, someone on the other end of the hotline picked up.

"This is a real coincidence, Wolf. I just got off hold, just now, so I've got to get off the phone to report the results," he told CNN. He stayed on CNN's air as he began to report his county's results.

That's when the hotline went dead.

"They hung up on me," he said.

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Apparently this goddamned "app" was written by Hillary's "former" campaign manager, Robby Mook. So maybe the app fucking up wasn't a bug, it was the feature.

Good news there is that Bernie's team developed their own app, so they'll have the true numbers to compare with whatever the DNC's app is showing.

Last numbers I saw though had Bernie in the lead, Mayo Pete a close second, Warren third, Klobuchar fourth, and poor old dementia Joe going down to his third Iowa defeat in fifth place.

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Now I have to watch a bunch of fucking tedious speeches because no one knows WTF is going on...

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Apparently this goddamned "app" was written by Hillary's "former" campaign manager, Robby Mook. So maybe the app fucking up wasn't a bug, it was the feature.

Good news there is that Bernie's team developed their own app, so they'll have the true numbers to compare with whatever the DNC's app is showing.

Last numbers I saw though had Bernie in the lead, Mayo Pete a close second, Warren third, Klobuchar fourth, and poor old dementia Joe going down to his third Iowa defeat in fifth place.

There is no way he is in fourth. But Bernie may well win it...

Your boy is up to speak next...

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The Biden Campaign is asking for an official explanation, chastising the Iowa arm of the Dems for poor quality control...

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This app was developed by a group called "Shadow" which is a spinoff of an establishment friendly "dark money" superpac called "Pacronym". And the Pacronym website says absolutely ZERO about who they are. Well isn't that convenient......

More curious is that the Mayo Pete campaign reportedly helped fund this app. If Biden's team is questioning anything, I hope they start there.

otherwise they look like Karl Rove having a meltdown when Obama won Ohio in 2012 (because he had paid for a different outcome already)

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The App was developed by the developmentally disabled and Iowa Democrats look like idiots right now...

This may be the end of their caucuses for either party, it may be the end to the caucus system...

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Admitting now that there were serious code errors in the App. I think using an app for this sort of thing is a bit idiotic and stilts it towards the younger vote. Buttigieg is claiming he was doing the best but who knows.....