Red Mosquito

The longer it takes Iowa to release their results the less it will matter in terms of a perceived bounce for any candidate. The candidates that stood the most to gain from Iowa were Buttigieg and Klobuchar if they over performed- but that perceived win could go over the heads of the next line of voters in New Hampshire, especially if the media kills enthusiasm by reporting on this to death over a number of cycles. It feeds into cynicism of the primary and caucus system the more we obsess over awaiting the results rather focus on the collective strengths of the candidates’ competing visions.

Rob wrote:No shortage of hot takes, that's for sure. My prediction is that we'll get results today, move on from there, and by Friday this will be old news.

Correct. Its only a matter of time until Trump feels left out of the national conversation and he will say something mildyl retarded and we can all go back to normalcy.

We're in the same year as the election, and it still feels like none of these candidates have it in them to rally enough people to their message and defeat Trump. I'm not excited about anybody. I've settled in and accepted it probably will be Trump again for 4 more years.

doug, I didn't know you were part of TMBG.

ballsy move by mayor pete to declare himself the winner. If he isn't, that might be something he doesn't come back from.

Spoiler: show

shades of Howard Dean, yeah.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:We're in the same year as the election, and it still feels like none of these candidates have it in them to rally enough people to their message and defeat Trump. I'm not excited about anybody. I've settled in and accepted it probably will be Trump again for 4 more years.

Lol, duh.

bart wrote:A malfunctioning app delaying the results of a contest where a bunch of people choose corners in high school gyms sounds like a thriller to you?

A fun narrative floating around last night:
And the name of the app company is...wait for it..."Shadow".

The real winner in this is Biden. Instead of having to spend all day answering questions about his campaign imploding, he can just sneak out of Iowa while the main story is about the app.

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Initial results from the Iowa caucuses show Pete Buttigieg has a narrow lead, with 62% of precincts reporting.

BurtReynolds wrote:The real winner in this is Biden. Instead of having to spend all day answering questions about his campaign imploding, he can just sneak out of Iowa while the main story is about the app.

Bingo. I didn't expect him to score so low.

Yang and others are close to 0-1%. Should pull out..

Definitely nothing remotely shady about anything Buttigieg did in these caucuses, nope, nothing at all

Anders wrote:Yang and others are close to 0-1%. Should pull out..

Pulling out is never an effective method of election control.

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Definitely nothing remotely shady about anything Buttigieg did in these caucuses, nope, nothing at all

Oh boy. Quick, to the Twitter outrage machine!

"Muh Russian Facebook ads are destroying our democracy!"



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