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2020-02-04 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Video: CNN Iowa Caucus Intro -- CAN YOU FEEL THE EXCITEMENT?!
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Posted by charger 2020-02-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 The Suppressed Des Moines Register Poll Results:
Now the final results of the poll have been released not by the Register, but by Five Thirty Eight (after voting is over) and it’s shocking, to say the least.

We can confirm the final results of the unreleased Iowa Poll:

Sanders 22%

Warren 18%

Buttigieg 16%

Biden 13%

https://t.co/deTryUiHgt

— Clare Malone (@ClareMalone) February 4, 2020

The real winner: Donald J Trump
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 01:05||   2020-02-04 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Amazing that as of midnight Iowa time, no results have been public. Very hinky. Problem with causcus is that ballots can't found in car trunks or file cabinets.
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 01:09||   2020-02-04 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 No problems w/ Republican Caucus:

Iowa 2020 Presidential Republican Caucus
Last updated: 2/4/2020, 12:21:27 AM
Candidate Votes Percent
Donald J. Trump * 31,874 97.14%
Bill Weld 506 1.54%
Joe Walsh 431 1.31%
99.94% reporting (1681 of 1682 precincts)
| 32,811 total votes
| *Incumbent
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 01:23||   2020-02-04 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Still nothing from the Dems. Are they gonna blame Russian hacking? Old tricks are the best tricks.


Iowa 2020 Presidential Democratic Caucus Round 1
Last updated: 2/4/2020, 12:25:44 AM
Candidate Votes Percent
Bernie Sanders 0 0.00%
Other 0 0.00%
Michael Bennet 0 0.00%
Tulsi Gabbard 0 0.00%
John K Delaney 0 0.00%
Amy Klobuchar 0 0.00%
Elizabeth Warren 0 0.00%
Joe Biden 0 0.00%
Pete Buttigieg 0 0.00%
Andrew Yang 0 0.00%
Tom Steyer 0 0.00%
Michael Bloomberg 0 0.00%
Deval Patrick 0 0.00%
Uncommitted 0 0.00%
0.00% reporting (0 of 1682 precincts)
| 0 total votes
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 01:27||   2020-02-04 01:27|| Front Page Top

#5 LIVE: 2020 Iowa Caucus Results In Real Time

Still nothing from the Dems.
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 01:34||   2020-02-04 01:34|| Front Page Top

#6 They'll keep counting until they get the results they want.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2020-02-04 01:37||   2020-02-04 01:37|| Front Page Top

#7 “I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this — who will count the votes, and how.”

(quoted in The Memoirs of Stalin’s Former Secretary by Boris Bazhanov)
Posted by European Conservative 2020-02-04 03:53||   2020-02-04 03:53|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe the paper shreaders and copy machines are breaking down.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-04 04:29||   2020-02-04 04:29|| Front Page Top

#9 But Mayor Pete declared victory! Lulz, they can't even do Iowa right
Posted by Frank G 2020-02-04 06:44||   2020-02-04 06:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Biden obviously finished in fourth and the DNC are trying to figure out how to release the results in such a fashion as to allow the night's big loser to spin this as victory.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 06:45||   2020-02-04 06:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Another episode in The Shitshow: Tammany Edition.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 06:46||   2020-02-04 06:46|| Front Page Top

#12 If Ma Peyote finished second, that would indeed represent a huge achievement and a major turn in the race.

Remember, this guy has never held ANY national office. He has no executive experience at all beyond heading up a shitty little college town.

Who the f--- would want to be mayor of South Bend Indiana?

Is this a joke?

In addition this guy has achieved nothing, literally nothing, of consequence beyond competing for meritocracy prizes that, in these days, are awarded to overly-ambitious identity-politics brown-nosers: Harvard College admission, Rhodes Scholarship.

In short if Iowa shows that the best the Dems have is an old scarecrow who's achieved zilch in 50 years in backwater/backbencher politics and a young whippersnapper who's achieved zilch in a couple years in backwater local politics, the Dems are toast in November.

THAT'S why the caucus tallies are being delayed. Of course they know the results now.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 06:57||   2020-02-04 06:57|| Front Page Top

#13 I am shocked at everyone's surprise. From the very same group who instigated a three year take-down of the president. I am shocked !
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-04 07:02||   2020-02-04 07:02|| Front Page Top

#14 These SS Clowns are so dishonest, they can't even tell each other the truth.

Biden's getting his arse kicked. The Dem's own voters know he's a corrupt old clown.

So now the ringmasters of the Dems' Shitshow are left with a nobody mayor of a ghetto college town, a crusty old Lenin impersonator, and a gazillionaire anti-2A hypocrite surrounded by his private mini-army and flooding the zone with over $200 million dropped from his Gulfstream.

In Christopher Hitchens' immortal phrase, the Dems' leaders have no one left to lie to.

Their own rank and file know the jig's up. They're f---ed for November.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 07:13||   2020-02-04 07:13|| Front Page Top

#15 Giggle. From Politico: "Total Meltdown."

Cue the Looney Tunes music - note the use of ironic quotation marks to describe the results of The Most Important Prinary in The Most Inportant Election aimed at Saving The Republic from Genghis Mussolini of Orange:

The biggest "winner" might have been Joe Biden. ... According to the Iowa entrance poll, he was hovering close to the viability threshold of 15 percent statewide

Huh?? You mean to say, "viability threshold" = "winner"? Whiskey Tango...?? Oh I get it. The quote marks around winner signify a JOKE.

The former vice president, facing potentially ugly headlines going into New Hampshire and beyond, couldn't get out of Iowa fast enough. “We’re going to walk out of here with our share of delegates,” Biden declared to a packed room on the Drake University campus. “It’s on to New Hampshire!”

eebidda-eeb-da-eeb, THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!

But wait ... there's more! (The Shitshow always has more). These are the geniuses who presume to lecture the nation on the sacred procedures of American democracy:

Democratic campaigns grew more furious as the night wore on with no word. During the first call between officials from the campaigns and the state party, the party “hung up on campaigns” when pressed for a release time, an aide to one of the candidates said.

“They are matching the paper worksheets by hand,” an adviser to one of the top tier campaigns said. The party said only 35 percent of the results were in and none of it was yet verified. “They literally have no verified results right now so we won’t know anything until sometime Tuesday.”

What right do these mendacious clowns have to govern anything?

Who the f--- are these morons?

What did we the people do to deserve them?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 07:37||   2020-02-04 07:37|| Front Page Top

#16 My thoughts:

"Participation trophies for all!"

Living Constitution believers need living elections too.

Like Whitewater, this voting business is "too complicated" for most people to understand.

Turns out delegitimizing election results is a two edged sword.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-02-04 07:42||   2020-02-04 07:42|| Front Page Top

#17 In that video Biden looks like someone who has begun that pre-death mummification procedure.

My goodness what a foul scum the Dems have devolved to.
Posted by AlanC 2020-02-04 07:51||   2020-02-04 07:51|| Front Page Top

#18 #TheDogAteMyCaucus

Best Caucus Ever! Surprised the FBI, DOJ and CIA weren't there to rig it. DNC had to hire Hillary's campaign manager Robby Mook to create the software obfuscator/blame receptacle. Well, at least the DNC were smart enough this time to leave Trump's name out of it. Wouldn't want another investigation/impeachment blowing up in the Dem's faces.
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 07:55||   2020-02-04 07:55|| Front Page Top

#19 #TheIowaCaucusDidNotKillItself
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 07:56||   2020-02-04 07:56|| Front Page Top

#20 Does Bleachbit have a version that works on paper documents?
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 07:57||   2020-02-04 07:57|| Front Page Top

#21 Do I have time to get another cup of coffee before the results finally come in?
Posted by Raj 2020-02-04 08:07||   2020-02-04 08:07|| Front Page Top

#22 Buttigieg campaign paid firm that developed voting app blamed for Iowa caucus delays
Posted by Mullah Richard 2020-02-04 08:17||   2020-02-04 08:17|| Front Page Top

#23 ^ Bend ovah, Bitchez!!
The South Bend treatment awaits
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 08:19||   2020-02-04 08:19|| Front Page Top

#24 I blame the Russians and Platte River Networks.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-04 08:20||   2020-02-04 08:20|| Front Page Top

#25 Actually that Buttfug commissioned the add design makes sense. Typical clueless McKinsey consultant's approach.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 08:21||   2020-02-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#26 * app design
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 08:21||   2020-02-04 08:21|| Front Page Top

#27 It's very simple, nobody realized when they were printing up all the marked ballots, they were all marked Hillary.
Posted by Silentbrick 2020-02-04 08:34||   2020-02-04 08:34|| Front Page Top

#28 Hillary's campaign manager Robby Mook to create the software

This article does not mention Mook, but other Hillary and Obama alumnus:
Caucus app blamed for Iowa vote count chaos was created by tech firm Shadow, Inc. that is run by staff from Hillary Clinton and Obama's campaigns

The app was created by Shadow, Inc., a technology firm that was created in January last year after data and messaging service Groundbase was acquired by Democrat non-profit ACRONYM.

Finance records show the Iowa Democratic Party paid $60,000 to Shadow, Inc. for website development at the back end of last year which was spent on the app, according to Huffington Post.

Shadow's CEO Gerard Niemira, product manager Ahna Rao and COO James Hickey all worked on the Hillary for America campaign which was defeated by Donald Trump in 2016.

Other staff include alumni of Obama's presidential campaign, as well as Google, Apple and former DNC staffers.
Posted by Huperesing Glains9539 2020-02-04 08:51||   2020-02-04 08:51|| Front Page Top

#29 [sings] And The Shitshow ... goes rolling ... along
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 08:55||   2020-02-04 08:55|| Front Page Top

#30 It might be more credible to announce that no democrat received any votes yesterday and move on to NH.
Posted by Airandee 2020-02-04 09:14||   2020-02-04 09:14|| Front Page Top

#31 Ted Cruz on Iowa chaos: Dems can't count votes and they want to run health care?

Morning's hoot.
Posted by Woodrow 2020-02-04 09:18||   2020-02-04 09:18|| Front Page Top

#32 Time for polite media to approve and embrace "THE SHITSHOW" as the official term of art to describe Democratic / "Resistance" / NeverTrumper activity
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 09:21||   2020-02-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#33 Did they get the vote certified legitimate by Jimmy Carter?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-04 09:35||   2020-02-04 09:35|| Front Page Top

#34 Sanders likely won.

He appeared to roll up Brezhnev-style numbers from all the US-hating subgroups in Iowa:

Early reports poured in on Twitter from individual satellite caucuses, many of which are focused around particular constituencies like union members and Muslim Americans.

Sanders appeared to do well among these groups, including at the Muslim Community Organization in Des Moines, where Sanders won 99 percent of caucusgoers, turning out 115 people to one or two people for other candidates.

At a Latino caucus site, Sanders won 94 percent, according to one report. At the first satellite caucus, at a union hall in Ottumwa, Sanders won the backing of 14 out of 15 caucus-goers, many of them of Ethiopian origin or descent.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 09:40||   2020-02-04 09:40|| Front Page Top

#35 If the software was not properly tested the system was disfunctional during voting.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-04 10:18||   2020-02-04 10:18|| Front Page Top

#36 ^ well, they do have a good idea because each of these tiny grouplets gathers in person. They do a physical/actual head count, and then they reassemble to assign the losers' votes to the various winners in the first round.

Various caucus leaders have already taken to Twitter to report their actual head counts... one of them, in Story (County?), just posted his little caucus's results: 111 for B.S., 82 for Fauxcahontas and 47 for Buttfug. They have 6 delegates to apportion, which should have resulted in 3 for B.S., 2 for Faux., and 1 for Fug.

And yet the software system assigned 2 delegates to each!

They do indeed know who actually won.

They're just f---ing lying, as usual. This time they're staging a coup against one of their own.

Complete, utter, total Shitshow.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 10:32||   2020-02-04 10:32|| Front Page Top

#37 Coup against Sanders, Part-II.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-04 10:35||   2020-02-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#38 The tingle's gone. Chris M sneers at his party, says Dems "can't organize a three-car funeral"
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 10:54||   2020-02-04 10:54|| Front Page Top

#39 Fee, Fie, Faux, Fug!
We smell the blood of El SnifferPlugz!
Be he alive or be he dead,
We'll grind him up to make Orangeman's bread!
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 10:59||   2020-02-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#40 Clue: you don't need software to count heads.

Pencil, paper, plus that neat little trick of making marks in groups of four + a diagonal line through them to signify 5... then maybe some masking tape to attach the sheet to the wall of the high school gymnasium when you're done.

Remember: the people who can't figure out the above are the same morons who claim with a straight face that Adam Schiff is saving the Republic and that Wusskies stole the last election.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 11:06||   2020-02-04 11:06|| Front Page Top

#41 Change the name from Shadow, Inc. to Shitshow, Inc.

Plus, why even trust a company called Shadow, Inc.? Who was second choice? Kaos? Spectre?
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2020-02-04 11:07||   2020-02-04 11:07|| Front Page Top

#42 
Posted by 3dc 2020-02-04 11:09||   2020-02-04 11:09|| Front Page Top

#43 Tweet from Ben Shapiro: Don't think of it as the Democratic Party stealing the election from Bernie. Think of it as vote redistribution.
Posted by Matt 2020-02-04 11:12||   2020-02-04 11:12|| Front Page Top

#44 This all explains why my morning news was overly cheesy with Iowa election fever.

Everyone remain enthused! This is all part of the plan! Say, did you hear that the Chiefs won the Super Bowl? Same thing, and everyone loves a parade!
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-04 11:18||   2020-02-04 11:18|| Front Page Top

#45 
Posted by 3dc 2020-02-04 11:42||   2020-02-04 11:42|| Front Page Top

#46 It's all fun and games until they pull this shit in the general.

Then it affects all of us.
Posted by charger 2020-02-04 12:14||   2020-02-04 12:14|| Front Page Top

#47 GOTV. Get busy. Only 9 months till Election Day.
Posted by Lex 2020-02-04 12:26||   2020-02-04 12:26|| Front Page Top

#48 Just to review the bidding from the last couple of weeks:
1- Attack on Baghdad embassy is the anti-Benghazi
2- Soleimani is tango uniform
3- Impeachment produces only a greasy stain on the Senate floor
4- In Iowa Dem leadership proves it can't count
5- DJT to deliver SOTU
Posted by Matt 2020-02-04 12:52||   2020-02-04 12:52|| Front Page Top

#49 Dem Candidates Excitement = A conflict of disinterest.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-04 12:58||   2020-02-04 12:58|| Front Page Top

#50 Dim Voting Booths are probably still Windows 3.1
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2020-02-04 13:17||   2020-02-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#51 Consider the irony of Democrats complaining about vote fraud......
Posted by USN, Ret.  2020-02-04 14:32||   2020-02-04 14:32|| Front Page Top

#52 "Jeez, this is tedious. What do you say we just poll the Awans?"
Posted by Grampaw Throth1447 2020-02-04 14:37||   2020-02-04 14:37|| Front Page Top

#53 AA5839; I had the same reaction. Who do these twerps think they're kidding with names like Shadow and Crossfire Hurricane. Idiocracy, made real.
Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-02-04 15:29||   2020-02-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#54 Wonder what percentage of Bernies voted for him just to put a thumb in the eye of the Democrat Primary Process and/or the Bernie Buyout of 2016?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-02-04 15:43||   2020-02-04 15:43|| Front Page Top

#55 ...of course we'll never know the no-shows who have already decided they're going to vote Trump this time around. At least they gave the radicals the floor to field a unelectable candidate.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-04 16:07||   2020-02-04 16:07|| Front Page Top

#56 They funneled everything through an app designed to alter the numbers. And it was also designed to be unverifiable, because they didn't want anyone to contest the app results. But it was their Office Space moment, where Peter checks the ATM and realizes that it's way too obvious and it will be noticed. The app results came back too fake to accept, and since they burned all the records to make the app the only source, they have no real data to show people. Long story short, the DNC is in a pickle.
Posted by Herb McCoy 2020-02-04 17:01||   2020-02-04 17:01|| Front Page Top

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