Hey Rick.

Hello.

Thank you for making the time.

I know that this is like insane.

As I waited and waited for the results of the Iowa caucuses Monday night, the one person

I wanted to talk to was this guy Rick Hassan.

It wasn't supposed to be this way, you know.

I mean, for months I've had on my Twitter header election meltdown February 4th, 2020,

but I didn't mean it quite that literally.

You didn't mean it as a countdown clock?

Election meltdown is the name of Rick's new book.

It's about election day nightmares.

What happens if the electricity goes out of the polls?

What happens if the loser of an election refuses to concede?

He's pretty much thought of it all.

Every election I wanted to be quiet.

No, because if people are calling me, there's a real problem.

But even Rick hadn't imagined this week's scenario, a complicated process in Iowa that

was made even more complicated by new rules, a troublesome smartphone app that seemed

unable to tally up results, and a state Democratic party completely unprepared for what happened

next.

Well, this may have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

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