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South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared himself the winner in Iowa after technical glitches and snafus prevented the state party from announcing any caucus results Monday night. Buttigieg, who was hoping to get a boost out of the nation's first caucus state to drive past more seasoned rivals, went beyond any of the other Democratic presidential contenders his his caucus-night speech. 'We don't know all of the results. But we do know that by the time it's all said and done, Iowa: you have shocked the nation. Because by all indications we are going on to New Hampshire victorious,' Buttigieg...

Some of you may have read a while back on the prayer thread for Yellow Rose of Texas that I was also sick,and had been in the hospital for a operation. There were only a few FR posters who knew what had been going on,and I asked them to keep quiet about it until I had healed. I am now healed (mostly),and after thinking about it for a while,I have come to the conclusion that I need to post about what happened so others may be warned in time to save themselves. I fully expect some of the posters here...