Posted on 02/11/2020 3:54:27 PM PST by Libloather
IOWA CITY, IOWA - Days before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic Party activist Lindsey Ellickson prepared to run her Cedar Rapids precinct by downloading the new smartphone app designed to calculate and report results.
But her planning ran into a problem: Her phone was ruined when she accidentally dropped it in the toilet. She struggled to get the app on her replacement phone and decided to call in the results instead. But it took two hours for her to report them to a party hotline overwhelmed with calls, genuine and prank.
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Sorting through the wreckage isn't just a humbling experience for the state's Democrats - it's also a cautionary tale. The disaster has already reshaped how Nevada will run its caucuses 11 days from now and raised questions about whether caucuses, often criticized as quaint vestiges of another political time, can survive in the modern era.
In interviews with The Associated Press, party leaders and activists described widespread missteps in planning and running one of the nation’s signature and most high-stakes political contests. They said bad decisions, technological failures and poor communications created the mess that humiliated Democrats, undermined confidence in the outcome and threatens to end the tradition of Iowa getting to pick first.
“The whole thing just broke down in every way possible,” said Pete D’Alessandro, an Iowa-based adviser to Sanders' campaign.
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What a metaphor for the DNC.
Their future went down the crapper.
The dog ate her homework?
How apropos. Everything in the democrat party is in the shitter these days.
More bs. Soros black ops...
Iowa Democrats were “ciaramello’d” by their own HRC machine.
I still think the app worked perfect......showed Sanders with 60% of the vote, and Biden in fifth with 8%.
She was in there with the phone set to vibrate, and everyone calling wondering where she was...
This bodes very well for us when CW2 breaks out.
Yep, the DNC will take the jabs for a botched caucus as long as the truth that they screwed Bernie out of the win doesn’t come out. The rats know if Bernie’s base thinks he got cheated again they will stay home or worse and would be a disaster for the Democrats.
Actually, I believe it is CLINTON black ops. She STILL believes she will be the nominee, and President.
What is it with you people tonight? These threads are hysterical.
You shouldn’t be wiping your ass with your phone Lindsey.
I see they are still pushing the fake news that Republicans sabotaged the counting.
I think they're repeating 1968...if Bernie doesn't get the nomination it's going to be a wild convention.
now don't laugh...
The phone went in the toilet causing demoncRat tears in Iowa.
The Dem Full House about to be Royally Flushed?
The visual of “plop!” then her fishing around in the toilet, etc., is not a good one. Yuck. Whether this is even true or not, we’re left with this image.
And here I thought that’s where they came up with their ideas, not placing their ideas in there.
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