Ken Mac
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You trump cultists sound like the people who predicted that San Francisco was going to win the super bowl before the game was played. We have not gotten to the presidential campaign and you guys are talking about victory. It's easy to do that when trump has no opposition, but the game will change when he does and when that happens, trump is done.
With the party that can't figure out who won Iowa.
You realize more people now claim to be Republicans than Democrats, right???
you didn't realize that the 2012 (R) caucus in iowa was even more screwed up, huh suze? yep... & it wasn't because of a failed app combined with a bunch of trumpanzees clogging up the system like what just happened. looks cheating is all you deplorables can count on to 'win' even when it's not really your race right now..
For Iowa, a second caucus debacle in eight years
This isn’t the first time in the past decade that the process has failed to produce a timely result, which in turn arguably affected what happened next (which, after all, is what makes Iowa important).
In 2012, it was the Republican caucus that was a mess. Back then, Mitt Romney was named the winner of the caucuses by eight votes — a narrow victory, yes, but still a victory for the favorite to be the Republican nominee.
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Except eight days after that New Hampshire win, we found Romney actually finished second in Iowa. The Iowa GOP announced, 16 days after the caucuses, that Rick Santorum had actually finished first — by 34 votes. But even that result was tinged by uncertainty:
Santorum’s strange, belated victory also served to embarrass the Iowa GOP — which had to admit that it had misallocated some votes, and simply lost some others, in a razor’s-edge election where every vote mattered.
It also cast an unflattering light on the old-fashioned and convoluted system that the party uses to collect and count caucus votes.
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Given the irregularities and problems, in fact, the party even after the recount declined to declare either Romney or Santorum the actual winner:
… Iowa Republican leaders seemed to cast doubt on their own results, saying Thursday that it was hard to declare a “winner” without knowing what happened in those eight precincts....
Eventually, amid pressure, the party decided to just declare Santorum the winner in a statement released just before midnight on a Friday night — prime news-dump time.
“To clarify conflicting reports and to affirm the results released Jan. 18 by the Republican Party of Iowa, Chairman Matthew Strawn and the State Central Committee declared senator Rick Santorum the winner of the 2012 Iowa Caucus,” the party wrote.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/04/iowa-second-caucus-debacle-eight-years/
'Clog the lines': Internet trolls deliberately disrupted the Iowa caucuses hotline for reporting results
Several officials at caucuses attended by NBC News reporters struggled with lengthy hold times that made it impossible for them to report results over the phone.
Iowa Democrats say they were inundated with outside calls that clogged caucus results reporting
Doesn't matter if it was the app or phone lines or a mix of the two. The process was flawed from the beginning. A properly designed process would not fail. Much like why ARPA net was so successful. The roots of the internet were designed to withstand a nuclear war. Now I'm not saying the process needed that level of vetting, but it was certainly not designed with enough forethought or insight as to potential failures that may occur.
Essentially - they fucked up.