The Iowa Caucus Debacle

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 4 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Is it really that hard to find out who won? Grab a stool as Jim and Greg unload on the Iowa Democratic Party for insisting on a maddeningly convoluted process and failing to ensure that the technology used to transmit results was actually working. As a result, by midday Tuesday, no one knew who won or what the delegate totals look like. After hammering the Democrats for the lousy process and general incompetence, they explain how the Republican caucuses look clear and simple by comparison while noting that President Trump's GOP challengers are barely even noticeable. Finally, with conspiracy theories already flying about how Democrats are out to deny Bernie or protect Biden or that the failed app may have artificially boosted Pete Buttigieg, Jim and Greg fear Iowa's debacle will further erode confidence that election results can be taken at face value.

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0:19.7	Welcome to the three Martini lunch.
0:24.7	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:29.6	Three Martini's coming up.
0:31.8	Yeah, that really happened last night and it's still not figured out.
0:38.0	Iowa Caucus is going to be all we're talking about today, so grab the stools, ready Jim we talked yesterday about this is going to be a busy
0:46.3	week and the least people could do is keep us on schedule we were supposed to have a
0:51.2	winner in the Iowa caucuses we don don't. What do we have?
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1:04.7	But Jim, I think most folks know by now.
1:07.3	And hey, by the time some folks hear this,
1:09.4	we might actually know the technically official results from the Iowa Caucasus but last night
1:16.7	we should have known I think at least by 10 p.m. Eastern time 9 p.m. Iowa time if not
1:22.0	shortly thereafter and that it became pretty clear that we weren't
1:25.8	going to get them on time and then it became pretty clear we weren't going to
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