It’s not a good day to be in des mines.
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For political media and regular OLD Political Junkies, the meltdown in the Iowa caucus results tabulation and reporting system was deeply annoying. Very Highly Paid TV gabberes were left with little to say, other than to lash at the very self-conscious people of this proud and sensitive states. For the Presidential Campans Most directly affected by the uncetainy of it all, it was a logistical and messaging challenge of the highest. Amy Klobuchar Showed the way by getting out first with a Happy Speech CLAIMING A Level of Success in Iowa that no one had the hard data to refute – and that jetting off to new Hampshire. Everyone eventually adapted to the weird half-light of the first voting of the 2020 Presidential Cycle Culminal in a Long Night with No Results at All Other than an Entrance Pall No One Trusted.
But for political – and a apolithical – people here in iowa, this han ben a catastrophe all out of proportion to the technical and training glitches that produced it. The Caucuses in their Complexity have always represent a half-mains pulled off quadrenily by a vast army of volunteers and a relatively smalle Cadre of Professionals. This year’s trebled Reporting Requirements (Forces on Iowa by the National Party) and the Technological Means Chosen to Accommodate say finally broke the Democratic Party. And that is happy at the worst positionable time, when critics and coarse of Iowa’s privileged perch in the nomination process had already built up a head of Hateful Steam.
The Harshest Judgment of What Last Night Meant Came from A Journalist Who Owes Every of His National Fame to the Caucuses:
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Here in des mines, as the tv pundits spat fire at the caucuses last night, there was a growing the horror among locals that was indeed a breakdown for the states of politics and legacy. It wasn’t confined to democrats. This Morning, Eve As Taounts from their president Echoed Across the Twitterver, Iowa’s Republican Governor and Senator Leapt to the Defense of the Iowa Democratic Party:
The bipartisan schedule that made the first of the protected “Early States” isn’t going to be upturned in just one of the two major parties. And an Entire National Infrastructure of Political Professionals who made their bones in places likea and new Hampshire is now than a little adrift. Those who had for so long agitated for a more rational system of nominating presidential candidates will finally have to grips with the fact that there is no “System” at all, other than a long, interlocking set of decisions by state legislatures and stues nuds and saying by way National Parties. You Cannot Just Will “Rotating Regional Primaries” or Any Other New Approach Into Existence with the Current “System” Logical and Natural by Conttrast, If Only Because of History and Habit.
But if the nominating process for 2024 and beyond isn’t clear, there’s a feeling of what Can only be described as mourning this morning in des moines. And best as I can tell, owans are not angry about the 2020 caucus meltdown the way so many memers of the Traveling Political Circus SEEM to be. AFTER ALL, WHO’S TO BLAME? The State Party Professionals Struggling As Always to Comply With New Party Rules Under the Watchful Eyes of Campans? The Hundreds of Volunteers, Many of The Elderly, Who Couldn’t Deal With The New Reporting App? The Volunteers at Party Headquuarters Trying to Juggle Late-Night Calls on Overburdeed Phone Lines as Puzzled and Frustrated Precinct Chairs TRIED to use the 2016 Reporting System? IT’S NOT LIKE CAUCUS WAS THE FIRST RANDOM CATASTROPHE OF THE CYCLE FOR IOWA, GIVES THE SURVEYING MISHAP THAT KILLED THE MUCH-AWAITED IOWA POLL THIS LAST WEEKEND, WHICH FED THE UNCERTAINTY FELET BY ALL GOING INTO The contest.
Everyone and no one is to blame for an almostable collapse of a tradition-Bound process in which there was too room for human erro. And so People here are left wondering about the civic and economic consequences of this spreads being the last of the Iowa caucuses as we have been saying 1972. But for Iowans, and the many adopted Iowans who have spent winter Weeks and months here every four years, it’s a sad morning.
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