Hey you know what It turns out Iowa, like all states in the Democratic primary, rewards delegates proportionally rather than winner-take-all Which means which one of the candidates "beat" the other by 1% doesn't actually matter very much
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Replying to @arthur_affect
David 🇭🇹 déchoukaj Retweeted Virgil Texas
No, actually Bernie won Iowa. And he beat the other candidates. It's safe and right to say that. He clearly won the popular vote. Why else give Iowa that privileged status if not for the momentum and prime-time speech?https://twitter.com/virgiltexas/status/1225145304518885377 …
David 🇭🇹 déchoukaj added,
Virgil TexasVerified account @virgiltexasMany other states have some version of SDEs. Often primaries are multistage processes, e.g. Texas in 2008, which held BOTH a primary and a caucus. But the topline number always reported is the popular vote. There is no other metric for determining the winner. Bernie won. Thanks.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Roy_DeLys
The "why" is a historical accident, and the more you actually believe Iowa is a "bellwether" that determines the course of the primary the worse it is to give that position to a 90% white state
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It was stupid to make a big fucking deal about Hillary "winning" by like 0.5% in 2016, and it's stupid to make a big deal about Bernie "winning" now The whole Iowa caucus is stupid and you can tell every person, cow and stalk of corn in Iowa I said so
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