It was Putin!!!

Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 3:39pm

Sure. All of the evidence point towards Mayor Pete and former Hillary staffers in the DNC conspiring to rig the Iowa caucus, but you know who is really at fault.
Putin!

It just so happens that we've got our top man on the case.

The delay in reporting is the result of a failed app developed by a company appropriately named Shadow Inc.

This firm was staffed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaign veterans and created by a Democratic dark money nonprofit backed by hedge fund billionaires including Seth Klarman. A prolific funder of pro-settler Israel lobby organizations, Klarman has also contributed directly to Pete Buttigieg’s campaign.
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While Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Troy Price refused to say who was behind the failed app, he told NPR that he “worked with the national party’s cybersecurity team and Harvard University’s Defending Digital Democracy project…”

Robby Mook, the former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, was the co-founder of Defending Digital Democracy. His initiative arose out of the national freakout over Russian meddling that he and his former boss helped stir when they blamed their loss on Russian interference. Mook’s new outfit pledged to “protect from hackers and propaganda attacks.”

Well, whaddayaknow?
The top man for protecting us from Russia hacking our elections, also happened to be involved in creating the app that "allowed Russia to hack our elections".
What are the chances of that?

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Submitted by Le Frog on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:06pm

These Clinton douchebags are fodder for the GOP. How hated by the DNC is Bernie Sanders that even the MAGA contingent is (albeit mockingly) calling out DNC fuckery.

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Submitted by Alphalop on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:11pm
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@Le Frog Apparently they are operating under the perception that Bernie's easier to beat.

Basically he's gonna pull a Hillary Pied Piper strategy.

Wouldn't it be great if it worked?

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:15pm

@Le Frog
Jimmy Dore's next episode is going to be epic.

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Submitted by MrWebster on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:32pm

A democracy without division is no democracy. The implications that a democratic society must be uniform and united is a society run by elites and tyrants. Division implies dissent. A lack of division implies enforced conformity. A society without division is an ant farm.

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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:35pm
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DK had already blamed Putin for it last night while it was happening in real time. But until Rachel says it it's unofficial.

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Putin isn’t going to make you homeless or kill you or deny you health care.
Your government will allow it to happen though.

Submitted by Wally on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 4:57pm
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Go figure. But only in terms of delegate count.

At a little over 60% of the count released.

Gee, I wonder who decided upon which 60% of the count to base the release?

Bernie was considerably ahead in the first and second alignment.

Biden polled under 15% in the first and second alignment but he was given over 15% of the delegates.

Not a con job at all. There will be no spinning to make it look like Butt won and Biden saved face.

Here are the partial results from the Des Moines Register:

https://features.desmoinesregister.com/news/politics/iowa-caucuses-resul...

Edit/add: Wait a minute! WTF are "delegate equivalents?" Iowa only has 41 pledged delegates. What are they trying to pull?

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Submitted by MinuteMan on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:49pm

@Wally @Wally The state delegates go to the state convention, in the future, and actually vote to allocate the national delegates, so it's another level of indirection in the whole process. Based on 62% reporting the AP shows Sanders and Mayo getting 10 national delegates each, and Warren 4; the rest are still up for grabs and I think that some of them could end up as "uncommitted", though I don't know about that. Biden is currently at zero. After New Hampshire he could become a big zero and then we'll start seeing the roaches scuttle out from under the floorboards.

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Submitted by Alligator Ed on Wed, 02/05/2020 - 8:43am
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@MinuteMan Here is a very pertinent clarification by Kim Iverson about the Iowa Caucus mess:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flfa8ysBZR0]

This explains how Bernie can win the caucus votes but lose the pledged delegate count.

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Submitted by MinuteMan on Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:34pm

The reported results with 62% in seem to tally up pretty well with the unofficial results that the Sanders campaign released earlier. Hanlon's Razer points to incompetence rather than skullduggery; there's a paper trail and general public knowledge of the lower-level results so trying to pull something would be pretty hard to get away with.

The most interesting thing is that it looks like Biden could be totally skunked in the national delegate yield. Pretty surprising given the front-runner mantle he's been wearing and really bad in terms of this main "qualification": "electability".

A couple of percentage point swap between Sanders and Mayo only matter to the bloviators. Putting in a heavy ground game in Iowa can reap outside immediate benefits, but they won't amount to all that much in the long run. I still can't puzzle out why folks find Mayo or Klobuchar the least bit interesting (maybe it's their innocuousness?).

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