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Can Anyone Explain This?
At this very hour, the Wall Street Journal believes that Sanders is ahead in the Iowa vote while the New York Times puts Buttigieg in first place.
Huh?
Different sources.
Democrat ineptitude.
Remember, never ascribe to malice that which could be explained by incompetence.
De gustibus non est disputindum.
The Times has it right, best I can tell, since they’re ranking by SDEs (state delegate equivalents), which is how actual delegates are awarded. Further evidence: Predictit has Buttigieg with a 72% chance of winning Iowa, up from 25% this morning. Trust the guys with money on the line.
Sundance may have it:
He points out that even MSNBC has paid attention:
This doesnt happen with Republicans.
Imagine upside-down world where bizarro-Trump is running as an outsider Democrat in 2016. No way he makes it out of the primaries.
For all the talk of election interference and voter obstruction, and establishment candidates, it’s amazing how much this applies to Democrats.
Actually Republicans have had Iowa issues as well. In 2012 Santorum was denied the momentum of his Iowa win in NH and NV because it wasn’t revealed until the eve of the S.C. primary.
This morning the WSJ had Klobuchar ahead of Biden.
Not one of them can hold a candle to President Trump.
I voted for Santorum in a primary because I thought Mitt was the wrong person to lead a charge against Obamacare. We will never know how well or poorly Rick would have done, but Mitt certainly choked.
I was hoping Biden would be the democrat nominee because I am convinced he would go fully brain dead between the democratic convention and the general election. Not that we would be able to tell.
Every word you type is true. In 2o15, Trump told Jesse Ventura that his team of lawyers had examined quite carefully how things are managed, Primary-wise, in terms of candidates getting selected as the Party’s nominee for both major political parties.
He was told by these lawyers to not bother running for President if he wished to run as a Democrat – that it would not be possible to untangle the corruption that 24 years of Clinton control over the DNC would slam him with. They were quite firm that the Republican Party although not free of corruption, was still manageable in terms of his coming out the winner.
Trump wisely took their advice and ended up in the Oval Office in 2016.
Sounds like it’s “Butti time” at the Times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOdhL433uag
Very true. I remember way back during the mad cow scare in the early 1990’s, someone on an early internet forum asked if their cat could possibly come down with mad cow disease.
The rest of us were like: don’t worry – you’d never notice the difference in your cat.
Same thing applies to Biden.
The biggest story here to me is how did a former Vice President, who basically had Iowa to himself without those pesky senators around, get boat-raced by a lunatic commie, a teenage Mayor from a small town, and a fake Indian version of HRC? Lucky for him the incompetent dem party of Iowa (stands for “Idiots Out Wandering Aimlessly”) has totally dominated the news.
who schedules a caucus on the monday after super bowl???
A scam to make Iowa caucuses irrelevant, so Joe Biden can stay afloat?
I caucused for Santorum in Colorado where he won the state. Looking back, I recognized a populist vibe in him that Trump finally capitalized on, bigly! I’d like to rerun that election with Santorum as our candidate to see if he would do better than Mittens in the upper mid-west battleground states.
“Who is Colonel Sanders?”
Oh its because the establishment wants Pete to win and has rigged the system. Unless you believe that Hillary won 47 coin tosses in a row.
I believe the New York Times is using Common Core mathematics.
“Can Anyone Explain This?”
WSJ is reporting the % of the popular vote. NYT is reporting the % of SDE. They ranked the candidates accordingly. By vote, Sanders is on top. By delegates, Butti is on top.
Man, sounds like a version of the Electoral College. I thought Demoncrats hated the Electoral College.
Maybe someone should point out to the Iowa Democrat Party that whoever gets the most votes should get the most delegates.
https://twitter.com/colonelbernie?lang=en
https://twitter.com/ColonelBernie/status/697995671031296001
We should not be to critical remember how long in 2012 it took to declare Santorum winner of the Caucus?
No, I don’t remember.
Don’t think it matters either since they touted their “app” and how good it was going to be.
Oh and Mayor Pete paid a fee to the app maker and was able to declare himself winner without any results being posted.
I think that the good Mr. Robinson wants an explanation of the different results, which has been covered.
I think that the explanation of Buttigieg’s exceptional performance may well be astonishing ignorance. I hesistate to draw conclusions based on a single voter, but there is a really funny report out yesterday. An Iowa Democratic voter asks for her ballot back after learning that Buttigieg is homosexual.
This is someone who is interested and engaged enough to actually participate in a caucus. One would expect more knowledge among such a group. In fairness, Buttigieg has been completely open about his homosexuality, so it’s not as if he’s hiding something.
Here’s one story on the issue. I find it quite funny. “Are you saying that he has a same-sex partner? Pete?” Answer: “Yes.” Then: “Are you kidding. Then I don’t want anybody like that in the White House. So can I have my card back? I never knew that.”
Agreed. (As well as their scheduling the caucus the day before the State of the Union address.)
Colorado elected the first “openly” gay governor and no one I know had any idea until it was announced he won and he was a “first.” /All genuflect.
Democrats and the media (but, I repeat) have the ability to downplay the truth if it might hurt them. For example, how anti-American they are.