Your next 2020 Democratic presidential primary thread: Now we're serious

This is my tenth caucus, and the clusterfuckiest yet. 100 minutes in, and we still don't have a first count. People bailing before realignment.

Chris Hayes looking depressed by the caucus-goers’ obsession with electability. OTOH His co-panelists are ebullient with wholesome civic feelings

― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous),

I've pledged not to watch TV, but watching three minutes TV convinced me we should condemn Joy Reid and Nicole Wallace and Chris Matthews to the burlap sack with a scorpion, chimp, and poisonous snake.

Lol

Petey Butts murdering the Biden campaign is going to launch a million millennial/boomer thinkpieces

you guise, boomers and lil boomers (or however james in poughkeepsie styles us) are hoping for butti to nudge out biden just to see y'all get sad, u know that right?

Sanders 141; warren 75; buttigieg 58; biden 24; Yang 23; Klobuchar 22; Steyer 4; uncommitted 2; Gabbard 2.

lol lol lol even my mock shitposts go awry, that was "butti to nudge out sanders."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/02/new-rules-might-complicate-iowa-caucus/605950/

“The kind of candidate that can win in Iowa is the kind of candidate I want to see in the Oval Office,” she said. A candidate “can’t be but a better human being for having been assaulted with this humanity in its purest form.”

lol

I didn’t stay for the end of the second alignment because we are dumb as hell and refuse to pay attention in my precinct and my vote was locked
in, and I wasn’t going to be able to move people

189 Sanders
154 Warren

possible Buttigieg hit viability after I left or Warren picked up a couple. will post the final count when it goes up

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/03/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus-democrats.html

what exactly is this

I feel bad for supporters waiting at caucus parties waiting for results, but watching the CNN anchors going nuts because Iowa hasn’t dropped the numbers yet is very satisfying

make them suffer imo

m bison, no clue unless it’s a handful of outlier caucuses reporting the full numbers and not the delegate counts

thats what it says, but its like...the numbers are small.

next update in 7 seconds

next update in 9 seconds

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mh otm

https://i.imgur.com/fdmcQRV.png

grim lols

the greatest data visualizers of the world have come together and determined that this is the best way to present this information:

https://i.imgur.com/BDmp1hL.png

is it safe to say this is a high turnout election?

xp more like new york CRIMES

we had new cards where once you’re locked into your groups and are positive who you support, you fill out side one. if your candidate isn’t viable (15%) you fill out side two

a handful of people had to be called up because they filled out both sides for no reason and those cards were deemed invalid. ok, rules, whatever.

I think they’re holding off and reporting everything at once, which is not what makes good tv or live reporting

high turnout, yes

will sanders win?!? perhaps
will biden win?! perhaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUVT1NZtZPo

but could warren win?? i mean there is some chance, sure

Where can i get good real time results in real time, as it’s happening, in real time?

you mean get them right now

u cd become iowa

or right now?!

mh did you also caucus last time?

No one knows shit.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-amy-klobuchar-bests-elizabeth-warren-one-site-via-coin-toss/4652075002/

this one's for u karl

yes

no results for you treeship!! not unless we report them to you manually

https://www.thecaucuses.org/

there you go guys

My raw data:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtSbedMeF6s

thats...a shitload of zeros

xp

It just feels like it’s bernie’s night.

You know what's great? Paper ballots.

nah this is weird

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2020/02/03/iowa-caucus-amy-klobuchar-bests-elizabeth-warren-one-site-via-coin-toss/4652075002/

this one's for u karl

― j., Monday, February 3, 2020 9:41 PM (two minutes ago)

it is true, i love to let fate decide!

You know what's great? Paper ballots.

can't flip paper ballots

there you go guys

An unexpected error has occurred.

i’m going to bed see you chumps tomorrow

so here’s the deal: four years ago, I stayed to the end and in a large district it took us until around 9:15

this time around, nearly every district has *more voters* and there is more paperwork

so every precinct is taking at least two hours to finish

there is nothing fishy, it’s just a process that takes over two hours with this many people

maybe with more viable candidates it makes everything take longer too?

nobody on CNN knows what they’re talking about lol

yuuup

I mean, all of these are reasons why the caucuses are nuts but the news anchors are definitely making this all about them

i get that the whole delayed results thing is annoying but now cnn/wolf is trying to make it into a scandal which reflects very poorly on the iowa democratic party. that's it everyone, we can't count things and mobile apps aren't working, things are bleak, take your ball and go home

Why are you watching television

I’m watching for the humor

the CNN anchor who is also bad at technology complaining about technology as he attempts to scroll a touchscreen to show that the numbers of all candidates are indeed at 0% is poetry