welshbairn Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 (edited) Here's the 2 articles above. She does write a shed load of articles tbf, 4 yesterday alone, on different topics, so she probably comes up with a fair amount of shite that she later contradicts. Quote If Sanders or Biden don’t win at least one of the two early contests (Iowa and New Hampshire) he’s likely kaput, and the candidate(s) who exceed expectations may move up to the not-Biden or not-Sanders option. Second, Sanders is languishing in a distant second place. It’s not unforeseeable that he could be passed by Buttigieg and/or Warren and denied delegates in one of the first two states. That would be disastrous for his campaign, maybe fatally so. Third, the field is likely to shrink quickly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/13/why-iowa-is-so-important-this-time/ Quote You might be seeing a pattern here. There is very little incentive for any candidate to get out at this point given the debate later in the week and New Hampshire four days after that. Between the non-serious attention-grabbers (e.g. Steyer) and the good debaters/"give it one last chance" set (e.g. Buttigieg, Klobuchar), there is practically no reason (other than pride if one absolutely bombs in Iowa) to leave the playing field. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/03/what-good-are-iowa-caucuses-anyway/ Edited February 4, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Laughing at them doing their damnedest to screw Bernie here and in doing so giving Trump the easiest campaign strategy in electoral history. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 The fact that they are using an App for something that could easily be done by email is very fishy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 [emoji232] [emoji232] [emoji232] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 In better news, Rush Limbaugh's got lung cancer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Bernie giving us the results of their internal count. 28% is great for Bernie. Biden is dead. Mayo Pete is going to be heavily pushed. Warren just doing enough to hang around and no more. Biden will probably stay in to stop his voters going to Bernie who replaces him as front runner and also old white guy candidate. Lol Tulsi. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 The entire count failing is a very handy narrative for the introduction of Bloomberg. Thankfully his only option is to attack right as well as Bernie. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 The fact that they are using an App for something that could easily be done by email is very fishy. There’s a reason every other democracy still uses paper voting forms. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieThomas Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Stayed up til the back of 1 watching the shitshow in Iowa. I'm not saying they're in full blown panic because Bernie clearly won, I'm saying they're in full blown panic because Biden got absolutely rinsed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 7 minutes ago, JamieThomas said: Stayed up til the back of 1 watching the shitshow in Iowa. I'm not saying they're in full blown panic because Bernie clearly won, I'm saying they're in full blown panic because Biden got absolutely rinsed. The whole idea of picking a senile guy who enjoys touching little girls as the 'electable' candidate has shockingly backfired. The 'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public' saying may have to be reconsidered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 The Democrats coudl f**k up a cup of coffee. You have to admire their utter uselessness at everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 29 minutes ago, Detournement said: The whole idea of picking a senile guy who enjoys touching little girls as the 'electable' candidate has shockingly backfired. The 'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public' saying may have to be reconsidered. Well it worked for the last guy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 Meanwhile in possibly unrelated news, Trump's approval rating has hit an all-time high. Gains among Republicans and independents. I'm sure we're all surprised that the Democrats are making an enormous arse of this. https://news.gallup.com/poll/284156/trump-job-approval-personal-best.aspx 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 10 hours ago, carpetmonster said: In better news, Rush Limbaugh's got lung cancer. Claims to be pro-life as well 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotThePars Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 3 hours ago, Detournement said: The whole idea of picking a senile guy who enjoys touching little girls as the 'electable' candidate has shockingly backfired. The 'No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public' saying may have to be reconsidered. It's almost like 'electability' as a concept should've died in 2016 when Hilary Clinton lost to a syphilitic game-show host. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabdownunder Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 17 hours ago, carpetmonster said: In better news, Rush Limbaugh's got lung cancer. That's Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh to you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 The DNC seem to have cherry picked results that show Pete Butt winning and will probably release the rest of them at about midnight on Friday to temper the Bernie win as much as possible. The fact that they are doing this with no shame does not bode well for the rest of the primary season and convention. You also have the usual idiots saying that anyone who questions what is going on here is a Putin bot. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Bernie giving us the results of their internal count. 28% is great for Bernie. Biden is dead. Mayo Pete is going to be heavily pushed. Warren just doing enough to hang around and no more. Biden will probably stay in to stop his voters going to Bernie who replaces him as front runner and also old white guy candidate. Lol Tulsi. Tulsa’s numbers are hilarious. While I’d like to think those numbers were on the level, I can’t help but feel Biden’s numbers might be negatively skewed. I’d imagine the DNC will find a way to rejig this Iowa caucus so that Bernie’s numbers are reduced and Mayor Pete/Old Man Biden’s numbest look better. Incidentally, I’m no Glen Greenwald fan, but the Intercept podcast has an excellent episode in which they go to a caucus to see what actually happens. It sounds weird and mental and fun all at the same time. Shades of 68. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 Sad to say that 4/6 on Trump winning a second term is beginning to look tempting. Incidentally I think incompetence is far more likely than conspiracy for the late results from Iowa, in 2012 the Republican count took 16 days to be verified. They initially announced Romney had won, then that they weren't sure, finally plumping on Santorum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted February 5, 2020 Share Posted February 5, 2020 The DNC have all the vote totals which they could release right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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