Posted on 02/04/2020 9:55:15 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg maintained his slim lead in the Iowa caucuses after the second round of results from the Monday night contest was released.
The results, which accounted for roughly 71 percent of the precincts that voted, showed the former South Bend, Ind., mayor with 26.8 percent of the delegate share. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) nipped at his heels with 25.2 percent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden rounded out the top four with 18.4 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively.
The Iowa Democratic Party earlier Tuesday released results for 62 percent of precincts, showing Buttigieg and Sanders in the lead. With the substantial number of precincts left to count and the margin so slim, the race remains too close to call.
Despite no official winner being declared, Buttigieg has already declared himself the victor as he works to gin up support heading into the New Hampshire primary next week.
So we dont know all the numbers, but we know this much: a campaign that started a year ago with four staff members, no name recognition, no money, just a big idea, a campaign that some said should have no business even making this attempt, has taken its place at the front of this race to replace the current president with a better vision for the future, he said at a campaign stop Tuesday.
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Th lavender mafia was always going to make sure powder puff Pete over represented in Iowa... so not surprised by him doing well there at all.. but as you stated hell be DOA before Super Tuesday.
Georgia is an open primary state.
If it matters at the time, I will vote for Bernie.
States with an open presidential primary....
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Illinois[14]
Indiana
Massachusetts (Primaries open for “unenrolled”/unaffiliated voters only)
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
New Hampshire
North Carolina (Primaries open for unaffiliated voters only)[15]
North Dakota
Ohio (semi-open) [16]
Oklahoma (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2015) [17]
South Carolina
South Dakota (Only Democratic primary is open to Independent voters as of November 2018)
Tennessee
Texas
Utah (for the Democratic Presidential Primary)[18]
Vermont
Virginia
Washington (state)[19]
Wisconsin[20]
Well, until our candidae wins . . .
America
Overrun with leftists with strange surnames
Bloomburg: ‘I’m a man of wealth and taste.”
Butty: “So am I!”
The faulty app is a cover story.
Polling stations were sending in their tally. The people behind the scene were using the app to manipulate the numbers to get the results they wanted.
The reason it's taking so long to get the count is because they're trying to reconcile the actual numbers reported by poll workers with the manipulated count on the app.
Thanks for the list, top of my mind as yes I live in Georgia
Wouldn't need a cover story if they just quit cheating.
Yeah, to put lipstick on it they do the patented Clinton coin flip. Heads mayor cheat wins, tails Bernie loses.
“And with 100% of the vote counted, the winner is...Snicklefritz!”
The lipstick thing? Is that like lipstick on a pig and trying to pass it off as a prom queen? Because it still smells, it cant dance, and reminds the date of Hillary. Then the lipstick covered pig drinks all the spiked punch and is hauled off in a van. Ole Bernie gets to stand there with his Johnson in his hand and wave goodbye.
In addition to supporting infanticide the guy is a natural born died in the wool fully coopteed Globalist.
Buttigig leads in SDE, which is what determines winner.
SDE=State Delegate Equivalent
Look at your link
They are screwing Bernie right out in the open.
Look, I do not want a communist in the White House. But right now, I’m very close to joining the Burn It All Down Party, so I prefer Bernie to any other Democrat.
Well, the 30% "winner" is a big problem with the switch from control by party leaders to the "democracy" of primaries.
It is seen as fair, and it kind of is fair, for 50.1% to beat 49.9% in a two-candidate final race to gain a seat that can only be held by one person.
In a multi-candidate race, a plurality winner is OK as long as all the candidates are on the same page.
But if 30% want, let's say, Mitt Romney and 70% do not, making the hypothetical Mitt Romney the "winner" doesn't advance democracy, it frustrates it.
If we are going to use idiots voting to select candidates for the Presidency, at least separate the delegate selection form the horse race. Get 30% of the votes, get 30% of the delegates, the guys wh "lost" get the other 70%.
Be careful.
NH had an open primary in 2008 (more or less, you could switch on primary day) and I voted for Obama because I thought he was the only one who couldn’t win.
Bernie Sanders, if he lives until November, and especially if he runs with Tulsi Gabbard, could ABSOLUTELY be elected.
I’m not saying that’s probable, and if you were betting money, I’d bet against it - but it very well could happen.
One of the messages of Obama-Obama-Trump is that ordinary people do not like the approved party leaders very much.
Bernie leads in raw votes counted and that will be a sore spot for Bernie followers that Buttgieg can’t overcome
Perhaps but they’ll need Bernie’s voters for downticket candidates in areas where it is close, even with the expected vote fraud. His voters are as glued to Bernie hydrogen is to oxygen in water; something majorly electrifying would have to happen to split them all apart.
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