First off, wow, same playbook as 2016 eh? Don’t release the totals in Iowa, just delegates, which is always funny business in a caucus. This puppet show is getting old and I am not the only one who has noticed.
www.theguardian.com/…
For Sanders supporters, being denied a rightful victory in Iowa gives feelings of déjà vu. In 2016, Sanders may well have won Iowa, possibly by a lot, but the state party did not release the vote totals. Instead, it only released delegate numbers, which showed Bernie narrowly losing the state “701-697” to Hillary Clinton. The delegate numbers are calculated strangely (this time around, in one precinct, Sanders beat Buttigieg 111 votes to 47 votes in the “first alignment” but both ended up with two delegates). If the vote totals had been known in 2016, it might have been clear Bernie had won. With his New Hampshire victory shortly after, Clinton would have been seen as losing the race, and the whole election might have turned out differently. That’s why, this time around, the Sanders campaign ensured that the vote totals would be released (and took a count of its own for good measure). This time, if he wins, everyone will know … eventually.
Sure is stuffy in this big tent party! I can understand the DNC trying to control the narrative for their preferred candidates, the people of the Democratic Party be damned! Super Delegate damned!
But what I do find unacceptable is the fact that the Sanders campaign did make an app, that app worked, like any app for tabulation made in the year 2020. This is like making a toaster now, a proven technology.
I get they were incompetent, this Shadow, which is a great name for making democracy transparent btw, what I do find unsettling is candidate can contribute to a firm that will be, at the end of the day, counting the votes.
History has long proven it doesn't matter how people vote, it is how the votes are counted that matters.
Check out this FEC Filling
Ok then. I really hope this isn't what it looks like because, wow.
I am going with incompetence as always, but wow.
But you know, if the DNC could stop protecting Biden from this devastating loss at the cost of the reputation of the Democratic Party, that would be great.
Heard Yang and Biden are getting the same amount of delegates, which I believe is the “quality issue” being seen by the remnants of the old kingmakers of our Democratic Party.
And, Nevada, check that app, before your reputation also comes under attack.