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Posted on 02/06/2020 11:53:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Voters may not have a full picture of what exactly happened during the Iowa caucuses, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is confident that he won the contest.
At a Thursday press conference Thursday afternoon in New Hampshire, Sanders attacked the Iowa Democratic Party for its oversight of its caucuses on Monday, while maintaining a triumphant tone on the results.
“What I want to do today, three days late, is to thank the people of Iowa for the very strong victory they gave us in the Iowa Caucuses," Sanders said.
As of Thursday, 97% of precincts had reported results. Although former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg is leading in the traditional way of counting a winner — known as state delegate equivalents — Sanders maintains a lead in the raw vote count.
“These state delegate equivalents have greatly diminished importance from past caucuses. And they should. In the past," said Sanders, "a candidate with more delegates to the state and county conventions could actually change the number of national delegates — delegates that go to the national convention — from that allocated on caucus night. That is no longer the case.”
When asked if the discrepancies in the vote count made him rethink the results of the previous Iowa caucus, Sanders told the Washington Examiner that he didn't "want to revisit 2016," but made it clear he still had questions.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
They’re all socialists. Shouldn’t they all agree to share the votes equally?
Everyone gets a participation trophy!
I declare victory too!!
DP0622: 116 percent.
I thought they all declared victory . . . even the guy that swept up the auditorium after they all left.
keyboard spew alert
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“...Shouldn’t they all agree to share the votes equally?...”
Good socialism...equally crooked, equal losers.
They should just declare everyone a winner, hand out participation trophies and split the delegates equally.
Didn’t Amy K also claim she won?
Didn’t Amy K also claim she won?
Everyone claimed to do well in Iowa. Even lower ranking Amy Klobuchar said she punched above her weight, the implication being that she did better than expected.
The party that wants a National Popular Vote but can’t count 30,000 votes in Iowa.
So, Iowa Democrats run a sort of Electoral College thingy instead of taking the raw vote count? How un-Democratic!
Last week Bill Kristol declared “We’re all Democrats now” and the party has experienced humiliating trainwrecks ever since. Proving once again that Bill Kristol is spectacularly wrong on absolutely everything. He’s a man I’d rather have as a declared bitter enemy than as a pretend friend.
97% in and holding. Yeh right, 3% of the vote left to finagle?
97% in and holding. Yeh right, 3% of the vote left to finagle?
First Vote Final Vote Total S.D.E.s
Candidate Votes Pct. Votes Pct. Votes Pct.
Buttigieg 36,718 21.3% 42,235 25.0% 550 26.2%
Sanders 42,672 24.7 44,753 26.5 547 26.1
Warren 32,007 18.6 34,312 20.3 381 18.2
Biden 25,699 14.9 23,051 13.7 331 15.8
Sanders 44,753
Buttigieg 42,235
A question, I surmise, you’ll NE’ER here a journalist ask Bernie.
I think FR needs to develop its own ‘2020 wonkery’ edition w/questions like these:
“Bernie, given that perhaps you more so than any other candidate, recognize that fellow candidates like Andrew Yang, Deval Patrick, and Tulsi Gabbard are NOT part of the bourgeoisie running mate class who own most of Democrat society’s wealth and means of producing votes and delegates, should you not re-distribute the voter and donation wealth accordingly?”
I'm the winner!
I'm the winner!!!I'm the winner!!
I'm the winner!! ! I'm the winner!!!I'm the winner!
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