Iowa's a Rotting Corpse

     Those of you who know the first thing about me know that I almost NEVER link to Fox "News." But the numbers they quote here jibe with what I've been hearing elsewhere and no other news source lists them comprehensively in one article. Here's the money shot:

     "As a precinct captain in DM 06, I know for a fact the numbers reported for that district for every candidate who got more than 0 votes are wrong. 185 people caucused there. They say only 92 did."

     Note the now-unavailable tweet the Iowa Democrats put out claiming they'd heard from 100% of their precincts. Those sleazeballs simply rounded off 99.5 to 100. There are still some precincts that haven't reported results, yet after all these days and God only only knows how many votes deliberately weren't counted (as in DM-06).

     "But, wait," you may ask, "didn't Bernie beat Mayor Pete by 6000 votes?"

     Why yes, yes he did. So why is Buttigieg poised to walk away with 13 of Iowa's 41 delegates and Bernie only 12? This is why:

The state party's numbers showed that Pete Buttigieg would be awarded 564 SDEs, or state delegate equivalents, while Bernie Sanders would receive 562 SDEs. Sanders held a sizeable popular vote lead, though, and finished ahead of Buttigieg by a 43,671 to 37,557 vote margin. He fell behind in delegates due to Iowa's unusual voting system that gave different delegate weights to different precincts.

After the "second alignment" -- meaning the popular vote after the elimination of candidates who received less than 15 percent of the vote in the first round of caucusing -- Sanders was still ahead of Buttigieg, 45,826 votes to 43,195.

     "Unusual voting system" is a nice way of putting, "Still don't know their asses from their elbows even after 150 years." And, please, let's not mention that Mayor Pete had thrown $42,000+ in business to the company that created the app that made a laughingstock of Iowa. That's right, peeps- A presidential contender gave over $42,000 in business to a company that made an app by partisans hostile to his biggest rival to tabulate and transmit voting results in a caucus in which he was running. Even considering how low Trump, the GOP and the machine Democrats have set the bar in electoral integrity, this is pretty fucking filthy.
     And Trump can hardly talk about the clusterfuck that is the 2020 Iowa caucus considering his own party's even longer clusterfuck in Florida after the 2000 election that was stolen by the Bushes. But there's really no excuse for this horseshit. If they had the paper trail to use as a backup, then why didn't they use it? How can it be when a guy gets 6000 more votes than his nearest rival, he still winds up losing? It's like the 2016 Wyoming caucus all over again. And don't be waiting for Tom Perez's recanvassing of the districts (that took place immediately after getting a phone call from the IDP which got a call from Buttigieg's campaign) will reveal any dramatic changes.
     Maybe the answer lie in getting holdovers from the Clinton and Obama campaigns involved in the train wreck of an app they thought would be better than Microsoft's. The fact remains that every name attached to that app, from Clinton, to Obama, to Robbie Mook all the way down to Sussman and Klarman, have all gone down on record in both word and deed as being dead set against a Sanders presidency.
     Before all the results were even in, CNN's Chris Cuomo essentially held up Pete's hand and declared him the winner, so the corporate media, obviously, is in on the fix just as they were in 2016.
     The New Hampshire primary is in three days. Since we all know that the closer you get to a primary, caucus or election, the more accurate poll results get, these are the latest numbers from Monmouth:

 

      Now, with these numbers, if Bernie gets mugged again like he did in the Iowa Caucus, everyone will know for sure the fix is in. But after Iowa, I think we have little doubt there's something rotten afoot. Iowa's a rotting corpse. Bernie's already washed his hands of it after having declared himself the winner based on raw vote totals and he's already in the Granite State. Declaring one or the other the winner will have no impact any more as it would have on Monday. The Republicans got all their numbers in that night. We're now at the other end of the week and the Democrats STILL haven't done that. And that's something we'll never live down.