I really miss Douglas Adams' wit.

any other number, it couldn't have happened.

All that is just is and all that is is God whose Being is made manifest by Being. What did you expect?

.... why wasn't the office staffed last night and today? It snowed. So what?

A couple of cots and some food and the problem is solved. I would also like to
know if the businesses on either side of the Dem office were open today?
People and farmers have been going to work in the snow in Iowa in the winter
for years.

KICKETY KICK HRC'S BUTT.

Even if it all goes to Sanders he still falls short

Because it shows the ethics of camp Hillary/DWS. It's foolish of said camp to have yet more distrust linger over her head.

People want and deserve to know.

If she can't win Iowa without this kind of thing, then the Dems have a big problem.

but it will not make overall difference.

just reporting what is being reported:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141334411

NEVER ever will she get my vote.

good day.

Stating that your won't vote for the Democratic nominee in the general (if things should go that way) is not a winning strategy...

And nice knowing you if someone decides to alert (I won't). People have been banned for making that statement. Just saying.

including asking them to sign a petition to that effect.

You must be too comfortable to be hurt by disastrous republican policies, or still living on mom and dad's dime.

BTW - I support Sanders for the nomination.

I vote for Bernie because:

Healthcare for all
Education for all
Public Prisons / not privatized
Legalized Marijuana
Veteran Care
Sensible Foreign Policy
No TPP
No Keystone Pipeline
Overhaul the corrupt Oligarchy run elections
$15 minimum Wage

Let's see:

Hillary recently said:

Single payer will never ever happen. She sounds like a Republican.
Students should still borrow for college. She sounds like a Republican.
She seems fine with privatized prison system. She sounds like a Republican.
Against the legalization of Marijuana. She sounds like a Republican.
She voted for the Iraq War. She voted with W - Very Imperialistic and Republicanesque.
For or against TPP? Depends on the day - Sometimes very Republican.
For or against Keystone? Depends on the hour. When she is for it she is sounding very Republican.
Overhaul Corrupt money in polictics? She gets most of her money from her Corporate sponsors. Very Republican-esque.
Not sure where she stand on minimum wage but I bet she stands with the bosses.

SO winning winning winning. Winning what? If We win but these policies don't change then what dod we win? A title? If she suddenly "moves" to the left should we believe her? How? How could we?

but a start. thanks.

by not having a Republican POTUS appoint RBG's replacement.

I will never vote for Hillary. Never, ever, ever. Come what may. I will never vote for Hillary.

We deserve better than Hillary.

that if Hillary wins the nomination I won't be voting for her or voting for president at all.

I couldn't in all good conscience vote for a person with her values.

I HATE that we may end up WITHOUT a palatable choice to vote for. The sole aim we have to deal with now is to keep the faith and press forward with intensity for what we know is true and just.

They go good with wine

Take a couple of aspirin, drink plenty of liquids (!), and try not to do anything strenuous for a day or two. The delusions should weaken in a week or two. If they don't, an intervention may be required.

...for the difficulty one late-reporting precinct had contacting their Iowa Democratic HQ. Are you equally deluded?

you seem to dance away from the points listed.
I must be to think that your Queen isn't above cheating.

...is absurd. Your list of reasons for why you hate HRC is irrelevant. But those suffering from HRC-hating syndrome wouldn't get that, would they?

live with your choice, I guess.......

My candidate is an honest man.

Maybe it was the reference to "conservativism" that did it, but hell, some DU posters even have "conservative" in their screen names

impossible, as shown by the numbers the State Party released early in the a.m. The missing precinct didn't contain enough votes to make up for the gap between Hillary and Bernie, no matter what the outcome.

The messiness of the process is built-in. It's the caucus system, not Hillary.

…willingness to investigate matters. Not the outcome. The process matters. The aura of cover-up and sleight of hand matters.

of close results before.

I tried to warn everyone before this that the results would be messy and unsatisfying. As long as Bernie won, no one seemed to care.

But I come from a caucus state like Iowa's, and I hate the system.


http://time.com/4172793/hillary-clinton-iowa-caucus-bernie-sanders/

The complicated rules of the caucus process are inherently tilted toward equalizing the strength of candidates, especially in a two person race. Only the number of delegates awarded in each precinct will be published on caucus night, which means there will be no official record of the candidate’s share of the voters at the caucuses—a figure that will likely more closely mirror the pre-caucus polls.

As a result, Clinton will be at the mercy of a process little changed over generations, in which candidates can tie the delegate count, even if Clinton has far more support inside the room. If Sanders surprises with an upset, by bringing more caucus goers out, he will face a similar result, which looks more like a draw.

Here’s how it works: Each of 1,681 precincts in the state is assigned a delegate count based on its relative strength of Democratic Party within that part of the state. To earn delegates, candidates are required to meet a threshold—25% in two-delegate precincts to 15% in precincts with four or more delegates—in order to earn any delegates from each precinct. (The vast majority of precincts have four or more delegates, requiring the 15% threshold.)

For the large number of precincts with an even number of delegates, however, Clinton would have to win by large majorities in order to net more total delegates than Sanders. In odd-numbered-delegate precincts, barring a blowout, Sanders would still pick up several delegates.

SNIP

They are inherently messy, unrepresentative, and non-inclusive.

And sometimes coin tosses come into play.

... by Hillary supporters to push their own "reality" that Hillary is winning, by a lot, and Sanders will never win. On a larger scale, the party seems to be pushing the same hting, and having that questioned will always be good. Also, making it so the "media" can't keep ignoring Sanders is also a good thing.

This morning on CNN someone was trying to make the point that this was a big loss for Bernie because he had such huge momentum going in.
What the hell? All the polls had Clinton up by a few points until the day before. Only one poll on the day of had Bernie up by two.
Yes he had momentum, but he was never expected to win. The fact Hillary couldn't pull this off was a much bigger loss for her.

nevermind there are 8 SED's for Omalley who could switch in March. So did she win or will she lose at the Convention? Her actions are not gonna look good on the Omally' people going to the convention. So if she caused utter confusion and wants to look like Bush Jr this really isn't the way to go.

I'm sorry, I'm confused by your post as well. I was agreeing with the poster I replied to about the way the media was spinning the story.

as I've been saying all along, and we'll never know exactly what happened there. There is no such thing as one-person-one--vote . The weight of your vote depends on what precinct you're in and who else is voting there.

For example, in a precinct with 2 delegates, and two candidates, a 25% vs. a 75% outcome would mean they split the delegates -- each getting one delegate.

That's how caucuses work, Iowa style. Every state has its own rules, but caucuses are a mess and should be replaced with primaries, like most of the country.

Why make sure he doesn't get them?

What did the entire Iowa Democratic Headquarters staff just take a snow day?

Same thing happens in American football.. if you know your wide receiver was guilty of pass interference and the referees missed it.. HIKE THE BALL FAST !!!!!

One Google answer is "Escuela de Osteopatía de Madrid."

Somehow I don't think that applies here.

End of message.

End Of Message.

Have to say I don't get why the post has it as the message body...

"No text"

Did she take the HQ phones with her?

It's freakin' Tuesday. Why would it be locked? And why would the phone have been shut off?

This is bullshit. Who is the clown running the show in Iowa?

I smell corruption. Winning 6 coin tosses in a row actually doesn't sound right to me.

You can get a two headed Lincoln penny on ebay.

1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 x 1/2 = 2 to the sixth power = 64.

One out of sixty four is the odds.

Thank you, Mr. Blaise Pascal, for figuring out the odds of probability.

regulation that will cost them billions. They want to continue unfettered - with Hillary.

To be clear, this person says it's 1 in 64 that someone could come up heads 6 times in a row.

since weight give it to the heads vs gravity. Tails tends to happen. Hence the quick call of calling it in the air.

at stake in those coin tosses and Hillary winning. Wall Street does not want to be regulated.


So anyway, what do you guys want to do next, Hillary Supporters? Get together and vote Climate Change isn't actually an issue? That's basically what a vote for Wall Street is. Just saying.

Jesus Christ, lighten up.

if you're in the Hillary campaign...

What with Bill and all..................

Same game different year.

Time to CountAllVotes again!!!

if the iowa dem party released all the info so any person could double check it...it would be democratic

this hidden math crap is infuriating

unfortunately the primaries are even worse

Sanders is right to be double checking everything. Party leadership just wants him to go away so they can get on with taking their money from Wall St.

Must be nice.

anticipation of the snow.

It's a cell phone.

Read it and weep HRC, the one giving a victory speech when there was no victory in the cards nor that two-bit proverbial coin toss either!

& a big

and make the vote count that much closer.

Time to demand a recount IMO!!

!!

And BTW how do you get 6 out of 6 coin flips to go one way?

You lie, you cheat and you steal ...

and then, you got 'em!


... or so some may think that is!!

Name of the game with these criminals!!!

"victory speech" were Bill and Chelsea. Bill and his baggage, and Chelsea shilling for her Mom and being dishonest. I am sorry to say that I've lost all respect for Hillary. She was so good during the Benghazi hearing and I was cheering for her. It is going to be very hard to vote for her.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

to have the office closed the next morning. It will probably open soon. Did the office KNOW there was an outstanding tally and if they knew, did they know it could/could not change the outcome?

This doesn't reach the level of nefarious act. If you know how Dem headquarters work, there are supporters from all campaigns involved at the office. I never feel out of place at my Dem headquarters as a Sanders voter. Nor am I made to - and there are plenty of us.

It's called a job.

Were you working all day and all night and then expected to show up at your job 4 hours later?

Methinks you are unfamiliar with how party offices, Dem party offices, work. In fact, you sound like a ………….