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

Because mistakes and general bumblefuckery will occur throughout the dem primaries (because this is an endeavor being conducted by human beings), it may behoove any and all official spokespeople, in the course of demands by the press and public to explain how such mistakes could possibly have occurred, to have on hand a random assortment of 5-10 much bigger fuck-ups committed by the POTUS which they can simply recite as a response. It's a bottomless well so this tack should easily carry them through all the way to November.

Extremely weird shit, the campaign has incentive to move on but any adult with a brain should want basic answers about Iowa.

We HAVE the goddamn answers! Sanders and Buttigieg got roughly the same number of votes, and did better than all the others! Warren came in a solid third and showed her campaign is for now still viable! Biden did substantially worse than expected! Those are the basic answers! They are not in dispute! Whether Buttigieg or Sanders got a half a percent more or less than the others is not important! asdfshdjflas;hdljhdskhdkjg

otm

Sanders and Buttigieg got roughly the same number of votes

A 6k lead on the initial choice strikes me as not "roughly the same."

don't forget the new Klobumentum

A 6k lead on the initial choice strikes me as not "roughly the same."

Great point! The numbers of initial votes are also reported and are also not in dispute!

this is probably good news for bernie more than any other candidate

Eugene reports that this includes senior people in Yang's HQ, including the national political and policy directors and the deputy national political director. Laid off staffers said they got at least a month's severance https://t.co/S2AGZ4Hn9I https://t.co/hswzvnPWMT

— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) February 6, 2020

the one Yang Gang guy I know on FB (who apparently voted for Jill Stein in 2016) has moved on to being a Bernie fanatic complaining about how Iowa was rigged by Pete, fwiw

did he do the MATH

call me old fashioned but I always thought the whole point of iowa was for whoever placed 2nd and 3rd to make up some bullshit about how they actually wona moral victory. does nobody else remember joementum (a two way tie for third! aka fifth place!)?

We've detailed in this thread multiple times when it's taken over a week to tabulate the caucus results within the past 20 years

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Thursday, February 6, 2020 1:22 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think I missed those posts. But yes, the 2012 Republican caucus is a good example. I honestly don't remember hearing very much about that at the time, so maybe the difference is that everyone's nerves are constantly frayed now (and some of us are on Twitter too much).

We HAVE the goddamn answers! Sanders and Buttigieg got roughly the same number of votes, and did better than all the others! Warren came in a solid third and showed her campaign is for now still viable! Biden did substantially worse than expected! Those are the basic answers! They are not in dispute! Whether Buttigieg or Sanders got a half a percent more or less than the others is not important! asdfshdjflas;hdljhdskhdkjg

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, February 6, 2020

booming post

did he do the MATH

― caucus fricked iowa account (mh)

he put up some long Youtube link that you couldn't pay me enough to watch

I refuse to believe that Tom Perez or anyone working for him could organize a "piss-up in a brewery," as our British friends say, but the public call to "recanvass" is at least one for chaos. If you support any Democrat you should run him out of town on a rail.

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 6, 2020

did he do the MATH

He did the monster math

do we have proof that dick_nixon isn't a Perrin sock puppet account

He can't be because he's way funnier.

actual lol ymp

Vermin Supreme Blocks Buttigieg's Car In NH

Did Bloomberg's campaign hire the Mike Gravel teens?

Trump was in rare form during his post-acquittal speech. pic.twitter.com/jq8NTTn5yd

— Team Bloomberg (@Mike2020) February 6, 2020

So far all I've seen from Mayor Mike's campaign is dumb shit talking stuff like this. Not that I have expectations, but it's telling about the level what he's aiming for.

Watched the first few seconds; that's sub-Colbert, you're slandering the Gravel teens.

aw man now i miss the Gravel teens

Here we go

the Biden campaign is running out of money and the candidate isn't even appearing personally in New Hampshire at the moment https://t.co/QG5UK7Mlah

— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) February 7, 2020

He received four pieces of mail from the Biden campaign. Only one mentioned the economy. The rest were about Trump, civility and international affairs, issues that did not move voters, he said.

Harpootlian said a third-place finish would make Biden “the comeback kid,” Bill Clinton’s description of himself after the then-governor of Arkansas battled to a second-place finish here in 1992.
“Then he goes to Nevada — and then thank God he comes to a normal state,” he said, referring to the fourth-voting state, South Carolina.

So Nate Silver's prediction machine now has Bernie as the favorite, with a 50% chance of winning the nomination.

had my eyes glued to dumb election shit all week, at great expense to my own health and personal happiness, and i had no clue there was a debate tomorrow

Why’d you do that

It's delightful that the most establishment-friendly candidate is the one that's cash-strapped and flailing the most obviously.

a debate tomorrow

to mop up all those agonized, undecided voters in NH and let them finally make up their whimsical minds who to vote for

...and also people who have busy lives and maybe haven't been following the primaries obsessively like most of us freaks

wow, feel real sorry for those people!

now if you'll excuse me, i have to prepare my draft for tomorrow morning's freakout about democracy

Nate Silver's prediction machine

I'm begging you

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQJO2eYUEAI-vYU?format=jpg&name=small

— bob marley

Why’d you do that

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:13 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

there's a sucker born every minute i was one of the 1988 ones

I'm in love with the shape of democracy

ed sheetigieg

his dad was an anarchist punk and now he makes funkless pop music, its sad

His campaign is indeed a CIA psyop, but just to convince radical leftists not to reproduce.

I didn’t need convincing but I’m not really radical

He's not even the worst case scenario for red diaper babies - he could have been a cop or a prosecutor.

he was a troop, that is a kind of cop

It's delightful that the most establishment-friendly candidate is the one that's cash-strapped and flailing the most obviously.

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), 7. februar 2020 04:15 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think one of the centrist melts wrote tongue in cheek that the primary was an interesting battle between Biden's multiracial working class coalition and Sanders' endless amount of cash :)

Glad it turns out Biden has neither.

Hum it’s almost like media coverage affects people perceptions and they totally ran with a Buttigieg win with glossy graphics for the better part of a week despite the fact that we still don’t know who actually won https://t.co/ajZFHgwh4c

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) February 7, 2020

Michelle Goldberg working overtime this morning I see

Listened to the 538 podcast. They say there's more certainty that Buttigieg won SDE than that Bernie won on Final Assignment.

And Buttigieg is surging because he is picking up Biden votes, I would think.

for this reason I am not encouraged by Biden's reported $ problems, would prefer to see him tread water for another couple months

was hoping that among actual voters a Biden collapse could benefit Bernie as much as a Pete type but probably wishful thinking