Live: Iowa Caucus

[Gefn]

She misspelled "demented".

Well, he’s a lock for a second term as Senator this year. I can’t see who ever runs against him actually winning.

There are rumors about who might be running against him in November but that is for another thread on another day.

[catfish1957]

Well, he’s a lock for a second term as Senator this year. I can’t see who ever runs against him actually winning.

There are rumors about who might be running against him in November but that is for another thread on another day.

Never dreamed I would do my normal middle of the night wake-up, and read this CNN headline......

Vote-reporting mess leaves Iowa with no victor on caucus night

Which should be interpreted as.....    If the dims can't conduct a simple primary (caucus), how do you expect them to run this country.

Or....

IF you want to go rampant with conspiracy theories, is that the Urkraine Stank is sticking to Biden, (5th place finish, and the dnc can not come to grips with two socialist front runners.)

[EdinVA]

Looks to me like the dems realized Bernie was walking away with the caucus and just shut it down rather than report it..

[sneakypete]

Looks to me like the dems realized Bernie was walking away with the caucus and just shut it down rather than report it..

@EdinVA

That could very well be what is happening. The Globalist money boys that own the DNC talk a good game about equality,but they are just fooling the fools. They let loons like Bernie and Lieawatha run their mouths and pull in the low-hanging
fruit because they want and need their votes,but there is no way in hell they are going to allow them to actually gain any real power. They are nothing but useful tools/useful foolse

Bernie just might come down with that new Chinese flu from "meet and greets" if he's not careful.

[240B]

Looks to me like the dems realized Bernie was walking away with the caucus and just shut it down rather than report it..

Yes. That is what the majority of Americans (Dem and Pub) think is what happened. They didn't like the result, so they said, 'We will just trash it.' Shredders are onfire in Iowa right now.

In the end they will announce that Biden won. Without releasing any vote results or numbers. They will just declare, in some kind of ceremony, "BIDEN WON!!!" without ever releasing any results.

To all the Democrats on this board...this is YOUR Party at work. This is what they do. And you support them. Idiots.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yes. That is what the majority of Americans (Dem and Pub) think is what happened. They didn't like the result, so they said, 'We will just trash it.' Shredders are onfire in Iowa right now.

In the end they will announce that Biden won. Without releasing any vote results or numbers. They will just declare, in some kind of ceremony, "BIDEN WON!!!" without ever releasing any results.

To all the Democrats on this board...this is YOUR Party at work. This is what they do. And you support them. Idiots.

This is pretty shocking for me to hear.  I wasn't aware we have Democrats on this Forum....

[240B]

This is pretty shocking for me to hear.  I wasn't aware we have Democrats on this Forum....

I apologize that I 'woke' you.
It is naive to think that there are no poster here from DU and Kos.
Of course they would be here on this Forum.
And it is good for them. That's the only way they have to get their head straight.

[EdinVA]

Hate to post socialist stuff on this board but....
Excerpt from the DNC rules... 

As the governing body of the Democratic Party, we recognize that if we wish to lead our country,
we must listen to the people. And if we want to earn the people’s trust, we must prove that we trust
them first. To carry out the DNC’s presidential functions in keeping with our core principles, we are
committed to operating in a manner that is impartial and evenhanded. The voice of the voters will be
honored, and all bona fide presidential candidates will have the opportunity to make their case to the
American people.
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/07/190227_PresidentialCodeofConduct.pdf

[mystery-ak]

Sanders releases internal numbers showing him winning Iowa caucuses
by Joseph Simonson
 | February 04, 2020 01:37 AM



DES MOINES, Iowa — Bernie Sanders's campaign says its internal vote count showed the Vermont senator winning the Iowa caucuses, though the state's Democratic Party has released no results.

According to the campaign, Sanders won 29.66% of the vote in nearly 40% of precincts in the first Democratic nominating contest. Not all precinct locations were included in Sanders's numbers. The statement also showed former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg in second place at 24.59% of the vote, Sen. Elizabeth Warren in third at 21.24% of the vote, and former Vice President Joe Biden at 12.37% of the vote. Sen. Amy Klobuchar placed fifth at 11%.

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sanders-releases-internal-numbers-showing-him-winning-iowa-caucus

[TomSea]

Washington Times:

Iowa Democrats say 'coding' error led to caucus reporting debacle

 By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Tuesday, February 4, 2020

ANKENY, Iowa — The chair of the Iowa Democrats said Tuesday the caucus reporting system broke down after a “coding issue” led to inconsistencies in counts and forced the data that was coming in from the more than 1,600 precincts to be logged in manually.

Troy Price, head of the state party, said the party plans to release the final results later in the day.

He said alarm bells went off Monday night when it “became clear there were inconsistencies with the reports” — triggering an “investigation” into what went wrong.

More at: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/4/iowa-democrats-say-coding-error-led-caucus-reporti/?utm_source=onesignal&utm_campaign=pushnotify&utm_medium=push

[Maj. Bill Martin]

What is truly scary about this is that Democrats have long pushed to "reduce barriers to voting."  They want people to be able to vote from home via computer, or from their phones, etc..

Thing is...you never get a second shot to have a fair, reliable election.  If something unexpected goes wrong (and the things that go wrong generally are things you didn't anticipate/predict), you cannot restore the faith of voters in that result.  It is gone forever.  And if we have a Presidential election that were to look anything like this caucus, voters on the losing side won't accept the result.  Nor should they.

[mystery-ak]

Iowa caucus disaster tied to Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager
by Becket Adams
 | February 04, 2020 12:21 AM

The Democratic Party’s first big showing in the 2020 election has been an unmitigated disaster.

On Sunday, a highly anticipated poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers was scuttled after a voter complained of polling irregularities, prompting the survey's conductors to shelve the results out of an "abundance of caution."

On Monday, the day of caucuses, Iowa Democratic Party members held emergency meetings late into the evening over possible voting irregularities and precinct reporting errors. They announced eventually an indefinite delay to the release of the election results due to "quality checks."

At this rate, with this sort of disorder and chaos, President Trump is going to steamroll whomever the Democrats throw at him and his well-oiled machine this November. It is going to be like the 2016 election all over again, which is really quite appropriate considering Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, Robby Mook, is reportedly tied to the electoral mess in Iowa.

It is a bit convoluted, but it goes like this: The Iowa Democratic Party tried something new this year. It tried to synchronize all election reporting with a new smartphone app, “which is downloaded on the personal cellphones of caucus managers to tabulate and report results,” the Des Moines Register reports.

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-iowa-caucus-disaster-can-be-blamed-partly-on-hillary-clintons-former-campaign-manager?_amp=true&fbclid=IwAR3jjDsvT-32lD-Z400kPvYe5dqh8UahdV54dCRiat5Mqv7R3bsp4dWQxuk

[mystery-ak]

Devin Nunes
@DevinNunes
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Too bad Dem/Socialists/Media didn’t read House Republican report on the importance of using paper ballots for election security...

[mystery-ak]

Sarah Hucklebee
🇺🇸
@hucklebee_sarah
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Just last week, the Democrats:
-  Changed rules of debate eligibility so Bloomberg could enter.
- Refused to release results of pre-caucus Iowa poll.
- Refused to release the post-caucus Iowa results.
Remind me, again, Democrats or Russians, who are rigging our elections?

[mystery-ak]

Sean Davis
@seanmdav
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After the debacle in Iowa, WHERE NOT A SINGLE VOTE HAS BEEN REPORTED, it’s abundantly clear that Democrats are the single greatest threat to election security and integrity in this country. Not Trump, not Russia, not Ukraine. Democrats.

[Free Vulcan]

The thing is you always have a backup. They went with an untested system + they got what they got.

[corbe]

Andrew Yang shifts blame to Trump for Iowa Democratic caucus debacle

by Spencer Neale

February 04, 2020 11:15 AM
 
Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang ripped President Trump after the voting app commissioned by the Iowa Democratic Party to count Democratic caucus voters experienced a technological error.

"It might be helpful to have a President and government that understand technology so this sort of thing doesn’t happen," tweeted Yang.
 
Yang, 45, made a name for himself in the tech industry and has established himself as the most comfortable presidential candidate when speaking on topics of tech and automation. His cornerstone universal basic income plan would guarantee $1,000 a month to every adult in America.

<..snip..>

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/andrew-yang-shifts-blame-to-trump-for-iowa-democratic-caucus-debacle

   I suppose Pelosi will start hearing soon to investigate how Trump sabotaged their little Iowa caucus.

[TomSea]

If no one posted this yet.

Judicial Watch: Dirty Registration Rolls in Iowa Have More Names Than Eligible Voters
Katie Pavlich @KatiePavlich  Posted: Feb 03, 2020

...

But according to government watchdog Judicial Watch, Iowa is ripe for voter fraud.

"Judicial Watch announced that at least eight Iowa counties have voter registration rolls larger than their voting age population. According to Judicial Watch’s analysis of data released by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) this year, these eight counties are on the list of 378 counties nationwide that have more voter registrations than citizens living there who are old enough to vote, i.e., counties where registration rates exceed 100%. These 378 counties combined had about 2.5 million registrations over the 100%-registered mark. In Iowa, there are least 18,658 'extra names' on the voting rolls in the eight counties at issue," the organization released in a statement.

Judicial Watch broke the numbers down by county, noting some of the biggest and most influential areas have suspiciously high registration rates. While Polk County, the largest in the state, doesn't have a registration rate higher than the population, its 95.9 percent rate is cause for alarm.


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/02/03/judicial-watch-the-voter-rolls-in-iowa-have-more-names-than-eligible-voters-n2560612

So, I think that "reg. rate", is saying for example, Dallas County, the first one in the table, has a 114% registered rate of eligible voters, so, more registered voters than eligible...

So, she wrote this ahead of time.  I heard someone with a far flung theory that they are doing this for Hillary. I don't really buy that but I am mentioning it just in case. Who knows?

How about that?

Iowa caucus disaster tied to Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager
by Becket Adams
 | February 04, 2020 12:21 AM

The Democratic Party’s first big showing in the 2020 election has been an unmitigated disaster.

On Sunday, a highly anticipated poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers was scuttled after a voter complained of polling irregularities, prompting the survey's conductors to shelve the results out of an "abundance of caution."
 

[thackney]

"It might be helpful to have a President and government that understand technology so this sort of thing doesn’t happen," tweeted Yang.

It sounds like Yang is giving reasons not to vote for the Democratic Party.  This was their problem, not the government.

[MajorClay]

   Klobuchar would be the most trouble for Trump in 2020, IMHO, and I can already guess his name for her:  'Mean Amy'.
   None of them have a chance against Trump, he will 'scorched earth' in vanquishing all comers.

I believe the eventual dem nominee is like the dog that chases cars.  It usually doesn't end well.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Drudge is reporting results so far, with 62% reported:

BUTTIGIEG 27%
SANDERS 25%
WARREN 18%
BIDEN 15%

Now, I'd be willing to take a bet that the Iowa Democrat Party cherry-picked which results to report so as to diminish Bernie.  I suspect that when the full totals are in, Bernie will have won.  But of course, they'll have succeeded in blunting any momentum he might have had....

[Hoodat]

Drudge is reporting results so far, with 62% reported:

Yeah, right.  After 20-hr pause, the Dems want us to believe that it is still election night as we wait with great anticipation for each remaining precinct reports in.

[Bigun]

[Cyber Liberty]

Yeah, right.  After 20-hr pause, the Dems want us to believe that it is still election night as we wait with great anticipation for each remaining precinct reports in.

Yeah, I can't wait to see Biteme jump ahead of 4th place.   

[Bigun]

Yeah, I can't wait to see Biteme jump ahead of 4th place.   

I've seen bought and paid for push polls with more trustworthy results!