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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Iowa held its first in the nation caucuses last night.

President Trump won on the Republican side, as expected.

However, we still don't know the winner on the Democratic Party side.

The Iowa Democratic Party said the results were delayed due to

inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results.

They stressed that there was not a hack or intrusion, but announced around 2 a.m.

that the results would be provided later today.

Officials are now hand-counting the results.

There are two very different ways to see this unusual delay.

One is that Democrats in Iowa are working to provide results in as trustworthy a manner as possible.

After the Razor closed 2016 race in Iowa between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders,

Mr. Sanders' allies pushed the Democratic National Committee to require caucus states to track and report the

raw numbers of support for each candidate. In Iowa, the new reporting standards slowed the

gathering of data to a crawl. Technical issues contributed to the delays. The other is to view the

Democratic Party's reporting as indicative of its suitability to lead.

GOP congressman Mark Meadows of North Carolina tweeted,

Folks, this is the party that wants to run your health care, control your employment,

decide what kind of car you drive and more.

These conflicted perspectives reflect the larger conflicts in our culture.

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