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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As one of Virgil's own commenters points out, Bernie won the Iowa caucus in the same sense that Hillary won the whole election in 2016
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Ignoring the whole debacle of the 2016 Iowa caucus, then yeah Bernie won without having access to the levers of IDC power that HRC had. This is a really weird flex to argue Arthur. Bernie won. Yeah the caucuses suck, but move on to the next state then.

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No, you're moving the goal post. The popular vote matters if everyone gets the same delegates. Logically, everyone knows whoever has the most people won the contest even if the delegates were a tie. You seemed to think so in 2018:https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1013122427205718018 …
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a fact is that the popular vote always mattered when it comes to your original point: media coverage. You defended the moral necessity of the pop vote in 2018 too:https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1049405393439318016?s=20 …
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