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Iowa, Democrats, and Elite Incompetence
Posted on February 4, 2020 by Yves Smith
The Democrats have lurched from their self-inflicted wound of the botched impeachment effort to the self-inflicted wound of the embarrassing fail of Iowa caucus result-tallying, thanks not just to the use of a newly-created app that failed in prime time, but also the lack of any sort of fallbacks. The spectacle of a district chief taking an interview on CNN while on hold with the state honchos and getting a hang up on air is a new low:

An Iowa precinct secretary was just on the phone with CNN, got off hold with the Iowa Democratic Party to report his results, and was hung up on.

That is a thing that just occurred on national television. #IACaucus pic.twitter.com/NEK6ozMwoa

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 4, 2020



And another unseemly example, both the use of Twitter and the obvious disconnect between votes and the delegate split:

This inspires so much confidence – a caucus secretary having to report the results over Twitter because no Democratic official will take his call and he doesn’t know what else to do. t.co

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) February 4, 2020

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