Caucus Chaos
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Monday night's Iowa caucus officially kicked off the 2020 presidential election, but it also had significant delays. Maria and Julio are joined by Shirley Wang, a freelance journalist based in Iowa City, to talk about the confusion that was Iowa's caucus and why the results took so long to come out. They also talk about the POC communities in Iowa and their importance in the 2020 election. ITT Staff Picks: - Check out Shirley Wang's piece on how the Iowa caucuses work, via the New York Times. - Read about the tech firm behind the disastrous app for the Iowa caucus, via the Los Angeles Times. - The Iowa caucuses and their accessibility problem, from Vox.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dear listener, a quick favor. We're conducting an audience survey and we'd be really |
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| 0:26.0 | Hey ITT listeners, it's Julio. |
| 0:28.0 | So, the Iowa Democratic Party |
| 0:31.0 | partially released data on Tuesday afternoon from the Iowa |
| 0:35.8 | Caucus, and as a 5.15 PM Eastern Standard Time, according to the official website of the Iowa Democrats, 62% of precincts have reported |
| 0:46.0 | and there's no clear winner right now but it's safe to say that candidates like |
| 0:51.6 | Pete Budajajajajev and Bernie Sanders are at the top and it looks |
| 0:55.8 | like Elizabeth Warren is third but it's still no way near official there's still more |
| 1:01.6 | precincts that need to get uploaded. In the |
| 1:04.3 | meantime we recorded it in the thick conversation with a fantastic Iowa |
| 1:08.1 | political journalist so here's the latest in the thick. |
| 1:11.1 | Well I guess I'm going to say welcome to in the thick. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a strange moment in American democracy, |
| 1:19.0 | and we're a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 1:24.0 | So you know we're going to be talking about this all. |
| 1:26.4 | I'm Maria Inahosa. |
| 1:28.0 | And I'm Julio Rico-Barella. |
| 1:29.5 | I love the intro. |
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