Oh, read this PLEASE! Best column in AGES!
The Democrats: A Corrupt, Insane Posse Masquerading as a Political Party
By Clarice Feldman
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He was gracious and thankful to all those who stood by him, something Republicans are not known to do as soon as Democrats hurl charges, no matter how patently flimsy and partisan those charges are. For once, Republicans didn’t flee the forum for fear of spotting their white togas when the jackals appeared.
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Keep in mind whenever you donate to a political party or movement, this is where your money goes — to make sure Senator McDreamy’s nephew’s roommate gets his piece of the take
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Of course, you can ignore the app’s factual genesis and look elsewhere for blame. Sheila Jackson Lee, B.A. Yale JD U Va, whose gerrymandered district looks like a gaping shark’s mouth, suggested that Russia was responsible for the crashing App in Iowa.
Rachel Maddow blamed the weird message board 4 Chan.
As for me — I’m sticking with graft and incompetence, the usual Democratic Party’s operational mode.
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The party discarded the traditional, Anglo-American system, where each state’s winner receives all its delegates. Instead, they chose a European-style system in which each candidate wins a fraction of the delegates proportional to his share of the vote. The Anglo-American system produces clear winners and losers. The European system doesn’t. It includes all factions in Parliament, where the leading party tries to assemble a governing coalition.
Democrats’ problem is that they are not trying to form an inclusive, coalition government. They are trying to pick a nominee, but they are doing it with a system that was never designed to produce a single, decisive winner. Oops.
Wonderful anatomy of a debacle. This is turning into a great news day.
Iowa caucus 2020: Inside the Iowa Democratic Party’s ‘boiler room,’ where ‘hell’ preceded the results catastrophe
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The volunteers tasked with helping the local leaders said they had never seen the app, nor had they been trained to use it.
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The boiler room sequestered those taking phone calls. Another room had been set up nearby for important political figures. And a strategy room acted as a command center.
Few people had access to more than one room.
So as calls piled up, it was unclear to those inside the boiler room whether party leaders located elsewhere were aware of the problems.
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Each had a handful of tally marks beneath the corresponding heading.
But volunteers said there were between 75 and 100 tally marks noted under the headline, “the app isn’t working.”
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As the calls came in, volunteers had begun taking down results on paper forms and passing them into the strategy room, which had morphed into a makeshift data entry center. One person who was in the room said the “system” they created involved taking the data and compiling it through Google Docs.
People sat in clusters with their laptops — papers piling up around them. Boxes were labeled “new results” for those that needed to be added, and another “still f-—ed” for those that had problems with the math, the person said.
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“It just became very clear that members of the public in general had started calling,” he said.
“One call would be someone screaming at me that CNN was screaming about the results,” said a different volunteer. “And then the next call would be somebody actually calling in the results. Or journalists were phone banking the phone bank. So we couldn’t talk to precinct captains because CNN was having their entire staff f-—ing phone bank us.”
Some were friendly Iowans seeking to give the call center volunteers a boost.