Posted on 02/04/2020 1:33:12 AM PST by 11th_VA
DES MOINES, Iowa — A technical meltdown in Iowa Monday night set off bedlam in the critical first contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, triggering competing claims of victory and stoking doubts about the legitimacy of the eventual outcome.
No results had been reported by midnight Eastern, and two campaigns told POLITICO that after a conference call with the Iowa Democratic Party, they didn’t expect any returns until Tuesday morning at the earliest.
Candidates stepped into the void. Pete Buttigieg went first by claiming victory — misleadingly, in the view of Sanders, whose campaign responded by releasing unofficial figures showing his strength. Amy Klobuchar also joined in by citing unverified results she said demonstrated a robust performance.
The biggest "winner" might have been Joe Biden. According to the Iowa entrance poll, he was hovering close to the viability threshold of 15 percent statewide. But the questions surrounding the vote-counting served to obscure a potentially poor performance. The former vice president, facing potentially ugly headlines going into New Hampshire and beyond, couldn't get out of Iowa fast enough ...
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Democrat snafu was totally unexpected. An improbable Black Swan event. Or was it?
The DNC party establishment are trying to scrub Comrade Bernie out and foist Biden on dem voters. Expect cheating galore.
How can you trust any results?
You can’t trust any results!!
Probably Bernie won hands down - no one even close - and suddenly everything ‘melts’ down until they can fix the situation in a believable manner ...
[The former vice president, facing potentially ugly headlines going into New Hampshire and beyond, couldn’t get out of Iowa fast enough ...]
“I said, ‘I’m leaving here in six hours; six hours I believe it was. I said, if I’m not made the Democrat caucus winner, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’”
(just kidding)
[How can you trust any results?
You can’t trust any results!!]
Jake, forget it. It’s Democrats.
They’ll believe anything other Democrats tell them.
(not-quite-a-movie-quote)
Not to worry Al Franken is on his way with votes in his trunk
Iowa RATs will just make up numbers out of thin air.
Bernie trounced them all but they are now screwing
Bernie over with this delayed results.
The Iowa caucus system is an absolute fuster cluck. No Secret Ballot!?!? And we allow this state’s Schitt authority to be the first “vote” of the presidential primary? REALLY? Iowa failed BIGLY tonight, shame on them, and shame on the national RNC and DNC to sanction this BS. Iowa with their extremely flawed caucus should NOT be the first flawed state to “vote”.
And our current presidential primary system voting is FUBAR. By the time my state holds the vote, a handful of states have already picked a “front runner”, virtually voiding every other vote of the majority of states afterwards. (rant/)
“Officials”, not “Democrats” in the headline.
Enough said.
Sorry couldn't resist
Not sure who will win, but pretty sure Stacey Abrams will be declared Governor of Iowa.
That would make a great meme.
Some malarkey is going on!
The DemoRat Party deserves all the angst and FUBAR as it’s shameful reward.
What if Trump won the DEMOCRATS IOWA CAUCUS??
DemoRAT ClusterFu*K, LMAO!!!!!
Big smile on my face this morning.
Spread the word.
This was planned to screw over Bernie!
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