Iowa Caucuses mess for Democrats. Ha ha ha ha

[Soul Crusher]

That big fat pumpkin spice needs a serious diet.  Nothing socialism can't fix when everyone starves. 

Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers


This year's level of new participants is well shy of that in 2008, when a whopping 57 percent of Democrats said they had never caucused before.




Feb. 3, 2020, 8:50 PM CST / Updated Feb. 3, 2020, 11:32 PM CST
By Daniel Arkin
Iowa's presidential caucuses were expected to draw record turnout Monday, but early data from the NBC News entrance poll show a big dip in participants attending a Democratic caucus for the first time.

The entrance poll showed just about a third of voters — 35 percent — caucusing this year are first-timers, a lower level than in 2016, when first-timers made up 44 percent of the Hawkeye State's Democratic caucusgoers.

And this year's level of new participants is well shy of that in 2008, when a whopping 57 percent of Democrats said they had never caucused before.

In a statement addressing a delay in results, the Iowa Democratic Party said that early data indicate turnout could eventually match that of 2016.

"What we know right now is that around 25 percent of precincts have reported, and early data indicates turnout is on pace for 2016," IDP communications director Mandy McClure said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/iowa-caucuses-turnout-entrance-poll-shows-dip-first-timers-n1129381

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Developing – Biden may seek court injunction to halt release of Iowa results…
www.citizenfreepress.com ^ | February 4, 2020 3:34 pm | Kane
Posted on 02/04/2020 1:20:38

CNN’s John King reports that the Biden campaign may seek a court injunction to halt this afternoon’s release of the Iowa Caucus results.

https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1224757883293880327

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Regardless of what you think of Obama and his policies, I just am not seeing the same kind of enthusiasm among these "Bernie bros" as what Obama had back in 2008.

Not even close.

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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dhs-head-claims-iowa-democrats-refused-to-let-department-test-failed-caucus-app



Bunch of FNG liberal dolts and morons. 

[Thin Lizzy]

Biden in 4th. Embarrassing.

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62% reporting
Votes
Candidate      
Delegates
Percent
Count

Pete Buttigieg
–   26.9%   36,262

Bernie Sanders
–   25.1%   33,793

Elizabeth Warren
–   18.3%   24,623

Joe Biden
–   15.6%   21,038

Amy Klobuchar
–   12.6%   16,972

Andrew Yang
–   1.1%   1,430

Tom Steyer
–   0.3%   376

Michael Bloomberg
–   0.1%   13

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#MayorCheat Trends After Buttigieg Campaign Is Tied to Company Behind Iowa Caucus App Failure




The hashtag #MayorCheat trended Tuesday on Twitter after reports that former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s campaign paid tens of thousands of dollars to the company that developed the app that was supposed to streamline the reporting of Iowa caucus results but instead failed, throwing the results of the caucus into question.

Federal Election Commission (FEC) records showed that Pete for America Inc. paid at least $21,250.00 to Shadow Inc. on July 23, 2019, for “software rights and subscriptions.”

A few months after that, in November and December 2019, the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) paid tech company Shadow Inc. more than $60,000 to develop the app that Iowa Democrat caucus leaders were supposed to use to upload their results, according to HuffPost.

The app’s failure caused a massive delay in reporting the final results of the Iowa Democrat caucus, in which 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was expected to do well, according to polls and preliminary results.

Precinct chairs reportedly could not log into the app, or after logging in, received errors when trying to report results. The technical problems led some chairs to call in results and in some cases, be placed on hold for more than an hour waiting for an IDP official to answer.

Despite the delay in reporting results, Buttigieg delivered a speech around 11:30 p.m. in which he seemed to declare victory.

“Iowa, you have shocked the nation,” he began. “With hope in our hearts and fire in our bellies, we’re going on to New Hampshire … to chart a new course for our country.”

Sanders supporters directed their anger towards Buttigieg after reports and tweets emerged that showed his campaign had paid tens of thousands of dollars to Shadow Inc.

According to those reports, the company is run by a number of former Hillary Clinton campaign staff members. The chief executive officer is Gerard Niemira, a veteran of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to his LinkedIn page.


Michael Coudrey
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The caucus app blamed for the Iowa vote count chaos was created by tech firm Shadow, Inc.

Shadow's CEO Gerard Niemira, product manager Ahna Rao, CTO Krista Davis, and COO James Hickey all worked on the Hillary for America campaign.

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I'm not the only one sharing this screen shot, but it seems important for this to get around to as many people as possible.

This is the "About" page for Shadow Inc, which was contracted to make the app for #IowaCaucuses. No staff named. This outfit is inexcusably secretive.

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Update: While they may not list themselves on their own website, staff profiles can be found on LinkedIn.

I'll share some details on a few of them.

(Thanks to @KafkaHemingway for screen shots from LinkedIn.)

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/02/04/mayorcheat-trends-after-buttigieg-campaign-is-tied-to-company-behind-iowa-caucus-app-failure/

[JustPlaneJane]

Jerrold Nadler would never have let this happen....

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MSNBC's Zerlina Maxwell Explains Iowa Caucus Chaos: 'Systemic Racism'
PJ Media Election 2020 ^ | 2-4-2020 | Jim Treacher
Posted on 2/4/2020, 3:15:10

If you haven't been following the news about the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses, I'll try to sum it up with a quote from the classic film Idiocracy: Their $#!+ is all retarded. Nobody knows what's going on. It's chaos and pandemonium. Backbiting and recriminations. They're really embarrassed themselves, and it's making them very very angry. In other words, it's absolutely marvelous. I haven't stopped smiling all day.

(snip)

MSNBC's Zerlina Maxwell... knows whose fault this fiasco is. HINT: It rhymes with "white steeple."

"Maybe I'll be the only person to say this today. The Iowa caucus is essentially the perfect example of systemic racism. 91% of the voters in Iowa are white. The reason why you see a drop in turnout -- I'm just speculating here -- it could be perhaps that white children are not in the cages. So when you're talking about the tangible pain that black and brown people are feeling, they feel a sense of urgency because their kids are being put in cages. Right? And so if you have a 91% white electorate, that sense of urgency may not be reflected in the turnout numbers. I'm not saying that's the reason for this. It could be a factor."

Maxwell isn't the only person to say this on cable news, though. CNN's Van Jones said something similar. They both claim that making Iowa the first primary state is racist, because it's predominantly white. And I know that Maxwell and Jones are correct in saying so, because I'm white and they're not. I'm not allowed to disagree with them.

So listen up, Iowa Democrats. This is your wakeup call. ... If you didn't want to get called out for your systemic racism, you shouldn't have decided to be white.

(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...





 

I want to say I can’t believe this, but I can in our New woke society. What the fuck?

[Soul Crusher]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/iowa-caucus-results-riddled-with-errors-and-inconsistencies/ar-BBZIMYd


Total mess. 

[Soul Crusher]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/06/dnc-chair-calls-for-immediate-recanvass-of-iowa-after-botched-caucus.html

Democrat chaos - not surprising from these losers. 

[IRON CROSS]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/06/dnc-chair-calls-for-immediate-recanvass-of-iowa-after-botched-caucus.html

Democrat chaos - not surprising from these losers. 

  TV news on other continents 

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Andrew Yang says what Democrats are too afraid to admit about Iowa
Washington Examiner ^ | 2-6-20 | Madeline Fry
Posted on 2/6/2020, 4:20:30 PM by The Old Hoosier

...“Oh my gosh,” Yang responded. “One reason I am pumped to be here in New Hampshire is you all are gonna vote Feb. 11, and you know when we’re gonna find out the results? Feb. 11!”

...After laughter and applause from the audience, Yang explained what the Iowa debacle will mean for voters...

"t’s going to be harder to convince Americans that we can entrust massive systems with government if we can’t count votes on the same night in a way that’s clear, transparent, and reliable.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...

[The Scott]

I'm surprised the DumocRats haven't blamed this on Wakanda, Munchkinland or Oz.

[Soul Crusher]

MSNBC's Maddow presses DNC chair Tom Perez over low Dem turnout in Iowa: 'They didn't turn out in droves!'
Fox News ^ | February 6 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn
Posted on 2/7/2020, 2:05:44 AM

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow grilled Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez over the low turnout at Monday's Iowa caucuses, pointing out how Democrats "didn't turn out in droves" like in previous election cycles.

Whiles technical errors with the voting system have plagued the Democrat Party over the past several days, some on the left are sounding the alarms after early results from the Iowa caucuses draw a parallel to the 2016 turnout, which was roughly 170,000 voters.

In 2008, there were nearly 240,000 voters.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...

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Iowa Fallout: The Commie Ascending, Quid Pro Joe in Free Fall
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon
Posted on 2/7/2020, 7:38:57 AM by EyesOfTX

Tired of all this WINNING yet? – All major stock indexes – the Dow, the NASDAQ and the S&P 500 – closed a record highs on Thursday yet again as the Trump economy keeps chugging along. Wednesday’s ADP private sector jobs report for January came in at a whopping 291,000 jobs added, almost doubling “expert” projections of 150,000. That news, of course, was ignored by our corrupt national news media. The Labor Department non-farm jobs report comes out this morning.

The Commie declares “victory” in Iowa. – Why? Because he won. At least, he won by any rational measure. That measure would be the actual number of people who came out and cast their first round and second round lots with the old Bolshevik.

The Commie won the first round of voting by more than 6,000 over second place Preacher Pete, and then, after the non-viable candidates were eliminated and their voters had to either re-pledge themselves to other candidates or go home, The Commie won the second round by a more narrow margin. It was then and only then that the “counters” from the DNC running the Iowa process were able to rig a miniscule “win” for Preacher Pete, somehow managing through an allocation process no one understands to award 26.2% of the state delegates to the failed Mayor of South Ben to 26.1% for the do-nothing Senator from Vermont.

Tom Perez, the utterly corrupt head of the DNC, was so upset by Sanders’ victory declaration that he immediately ordered his toadies out in Iowa to re-canvass the vote. He does that not on the belief that it would somehow change any of the confused outcome, but in order to throw even more confusion into the process in order to further obscure Sanders’ clear win.

Because, hey, if they can’t rig the outcome they prefer, the next best thing is to coordinate with their media toadies to confuse the public about who really won. This is your Democrat Party in action. It’s all very transparent if you just pay attention.

But all this confusion over who “won” in Iowa kind of misses the point, anyway. There were two big stories coming out of that fiasco, both of them terrible news for the Democrats and the DNC:

Total voter turnout was somewhere around 170,000, which puts it in line with the Democrat turnout in Iowa for 2012, when Barack Hussein Obama His Own Self was running unopposed. Party officials had speculated that turnout would compare to the 2008 turnout, when almost 240,000 Iowans showed up to pick between Obama and the Fainting Felon. This low turnout number indicates a party headed for a sea-change loss election in November. Thus, it has been largely ignored by the corrupt news media. Joe Biden is in free-fall now. He failed to win a single county or a single national delegate under the party’s Byzantine formula for allocation of delegates, even though he did receive slightly above 15% of the vote, at least if you believe the DNC “counters,” which you should not. This is terrible news for the DNC and the party’s major donor base, who had held out hope that Biden would be able to stave off The Commie. Biden’s numbers are also now collapsing in other early primary states. In the two most recent polls out of New Hampshire, he comes in at just 11%, not even half of The Commie’s level of support. In South Carolina, where Biden has consistently held a 25-30% margin thanks to heavy support in that state’s Black community, a new Zogby Analytics poll shows his lead sitting at just 8% over The Commie. A recent Post and Courier poll pegs his lead at just 5%. Polls show Quid Pro Joe and The Commie running neck and neck in Nevada, the only other contest before Super Tuesday.

Right now it appears likely that Biden will run no better than a poor 4th place in New Hampshire, and probably will not win any delegates there, either. That from the guy that the DNC has promoted for 10 solid months as its most “electable” candidate. If the bottom falls out up there, then it seems possible now that the Unfrozen Caveman Senator could even lose in South Carolina and go into Super Tuesday without having won a single contest. If that happens, he is well and truly done.

Biden’s problem is simple: He is clearly too old and infirm for the job. That is obvious to anyone who actually pays attention to him. While Sanders is a little bit older than Quid Pro Joe, he at least is holding things together, despite his heart incident last October. But Biden often doesn’t know where he is on any given day, and increasingly looks lost while speaking to his paltry audiences.

He was able to get away with all of that up until voters actually began paying attention to the race, which has really just begun to happen over the last few weeks, as the caucus and primary contests approach. Voters are now tuning in, and what they see in Biden obviously disturbs them.

The reality of Biden – as opposed to the myth of “electability” that he and the DNC have promoted since last April – combined with the months-long headlines about his and Hunter Biden’s looting of the Ukraine while he served as Vice President, is why his numbers are in free-fall.

A reader asked yesterday if Biden would turn out to be this election cycle’s Jeb! Bush. I replied that he already is, but he just hasn’t quite figured it out yet. Jeb! himself didn’t figure it out until it was already over for him. Biden will, however, figure it out soon, perhaps after a loss in South Carolina, or no later than what will almost certainly become a disastrous showing on Super Tuesday.

My new odds for the Eventual Winner of the Democrat Party’s Nomination:

The Commie 7 to 4

Mini-Mike 4 to 1

Fauxcahontas 10 to 1

Preacher Pete 10 to 1

Quid Pro Joe 30 to 1

Tom Steyer 30 to 1

Someone Else 2 to 1

Who, you ask, is that Someone Else? Well, who do you think?

That is all.

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DNC Chairman Tom Perez calls on the Iowa Democratic Party to 'immediately' begin a recanvass



https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dnc-chairman-tom-perez-calls-iowa-democratic-party-180500774.html


LOL...the DNC desperately trying to force a Biden win. 

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Rachel Maddow Blames 4Chan For Shambles in Iowa
Published 1 min ago on 7 February, 2020 | Paul Joseph Watson
Posted on 2/7/2020, 1:56:35 PM by Red Badger

Absurdly claims calls made after Shadow app failure affected vote count.

Rachel Maddow blamed anonymous messageboard 4Chan for the debacle in Iowa, claiming that a handful of calls ‘clogged up’ the Iowa Democratic Party phone lines.

The delay in reporting the results of the Iowa caucus was blames on “reporting issues” related to an app called Shadow which is owned by Buttigieg supporter Tara McGowan.

However, this didn’t stop Maddow from claiming that 4Channers were to blame for calling Democratic Party phone lines to sow confusion, despite it being acknowledged that this occurred after the problem with the app had been made public.

“Firstly, the caucus was over, and Dems had to call in because their other tech failed,” the Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross noted. “But even crazier, Maddow compared all of this to the 2002 New Hampshire phone jamming scandal, in which, completely unlike Iowa, GOP operatives robo-called Democrats’ get-out-the-vote call centers *before* a Senate election.”

Ross accused Maddow of engaging in “pure disinformation” in front of an audience of millions.

The MSNBC host made the bizarre claims despite her own colleagues at the network debunking 4chan’s involvement earlier in the day.

Just be glad that Maddow didn’t blame “Russian bots” for the shambles as many on Twitter did earlier this week.

[loco]

Documents reveal DNC was 'intimately involved' in development of troubled Iowa caucus app

While the Democratic National Committee over the past 10 days has tried to distance itself from the troubled app that threw the results of the Iowa caucuses into disarray, a copy of the contract and internal correspondence provided to Yahoo News demonstrates that national party officials had extensive oversight over the development of the technology.

An unaffiliated Democratic operative in Iowa provided Yahoo News with a copy of the contract between Shadow and the Iowa Democratic Party. The contract, which was signed on Oct. 14, 2019, and refers to Shadow as the “Consultant,” specified that the company had to work with the DNC and provide the national party with access to its software for testing.  

“Consultant agrees to work with the DNC Services Corporation / Democratic National Committee (‘DNC’) on an on-going basis as Consultant develops the software,” the contract reads.

The contract also specifies that Shadow agrees to “provide DNC continual access to review the Consultant’s system configurations, security and system logs, system designs, data flow designs, security controls (preventative and detective), and operational plans for how the Consultant will use and run the Software for informational dissemination, pre-registration, tabulation, and reporting throughout the caucus process.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/shadow-inc-idp-contract-dnc-documents-224407455.html