Some DKos Clinton supporters on this site should be ashamed of themselves, today. When the Des Moines Register asks aloud if the wrong winner was called in Monday evening’s Iowa Democratic Caucuses (which is exactly what has transpired this morning), one would not expect the kind of bullsh*t, like we’re seeing in many posts in this community.
(This is a lengthy, highly-detailed article regarding Monday evening’s events. And, considering the recent past screw-ups in Iowa caucus results—with Romney being declared the “winner” in 2012, and then two weeks later “correcting” itself to give Santorum the win—you’d think everyone would tone down the bullsh*t propaganda and take a LOOK AT THE FACTS!)
Iowa nightmare revisited: Was correct winner called on caucus night?Jennifer Jacobs The Des Moines Register 8:02 a.m. EST February 3, 2016
DES MOINES — It's Iowa's nightmare scenario revisited: An extraordinarily close count in the Iowa caucuses— and reports of chaos in precincts and computer glitches — are raising questions about accuracy of the count and winner.
This time it's the Democrats, not the Republicans...
The article reports: “Even as Hillary Clinton trumpeted her Iowa win in New Hampshire on Tuesday, aides for Bernie Sanders said the eyelash-thin margin raised questions and called for a review. The chairwoman of the Iowa Democratic Party rejected that notion, saying the results are final.”
...The situation echoes the events on the Republican side in the 2012 caucuses, when one winner (Mitt Romney, by eight votes) was named on caucus night, but a closer examination of the paperwork that reflected the head counts showed someone else pulled in more votes (Rick Santorum, by 34 votes). But some precincts were still missing entirely...
Readers are reminded: “Like Republican party officials in 2012, Democratic party officials worked into the early morning on caucus night trying to account for results from a handful of tardy precincts.”
...But at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Andy McGuire announced that Clinton had eked out a slim victory, based on results from 1,682 of 1,683 precincts.
After voters from the final missing Democratic precinct tracked down party officials Tuesday morning to report their results, Sanders won by two delegate equivalents over Clinton in the final missing precinct, Des Moines precinct No. 42….
The article continues on to provide some pretty extensive details regarding events at various precinct caucuses throughout the state on Monday evening. It’s, EASILY, the most in-depth and objective piece I’ve read about Monday evening’s exercise, and how not to run a caucus or election in the United States, to date.
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One last note: Contrary to far too many folks around here, for the millionth time, raging about “conspiracy theories,” every time INCONVENIENT FACTS are included in an accurate, evenhanded news report—as opposed to flat-out bullsh*t––maybe those hyperpartisans should consider taking a breather and reconsider what actually occurred…
...Sanders campaign aides told the Register they've found some discrepancies between tallies at the precinct level and numbers that were reported to the state party. The Iowa Democratic Party determines its winner not based on a head count like in the Republicans' straw poll, but based on delegate equivalents tied to a math formula. And there was enough confusion, and untrained volunteers on Monday night, that errors may have been made.
"We feel like that there’s a very, very good chance that there is," said Rania Batrice, a Sanders spokeswoman. "It's not that we think anybody did anything intentionally, but human error happens."...
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