{"id":176969,"date":"2020-02-04T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/04\/iowa-caucuses-tonight\/"},"modified":"2020-02-04T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T05:08:00","slug":"iowa-caucuses-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/04\/iowa-caucuses-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa Caucuses Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vote count has not budged from 1.9% reporting for something like 2 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, they were at over 90% reporting at this time, but since it appears that they employed the geniuses from the Clinton campaign who f%$#ed up their political models completely, the app is not working well, so the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/02\/03\/us\/politics\/iowa-caucuses.html\">state party is holding results back for, &#8220;quality control&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, they aren&#8217;t holding back results for, &#8220;quality control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the best case they are holding back for, &#8220;Employing blithering idiots to handle critical infrastructure,&#8221; and in the worst case, they are holding back results for, &#8220;Electoral fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess that we will find out in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Standings with 1.9% reporting, which means that it&#8217;s still a crap shoot are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sanders (27.7%)<\/li>\n<li>Warren (25.1%)<\/li>\n<li>Buttigieg (23.8%)<\/li>\n<li>Klobuchar (11.8%)<\/li>\n<li>Biden (11.1%)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No analysis, because the numbers are to preliminary, and too dodgy, reports are that state party officials are verifying by hand, to make any analysis beyond this xkcd cartoon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Dx9YgL0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Dx9YgL0.png\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2030\/\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vote count has not budged from 1.9% reporting for something like 2 hours. In 2016, they were at over 90% reporting at this time, but since it appears that they employed the geniuses from the Clinton campaign who f%$#ed up their political models completely, the app is not working well, so the state party &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,578,405,406,403],"class_list":["post-176969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-incompetence","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}