We had 285 total people in our caucus and a 15% viability threshold, which meant you needed at least 43 people to be viable after the first round.pic.twitter.com/M5pU5OxPFL
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We had 285 total people in our caucus and a 15% viability threshold, which meant you needed at least 43 people to be viable after the first round.pic.twitter.com/M5pU5OxPFL
People were already gathered in their assigned areas, and it was pretty clear who was viable and who wasn't. Biden had fewer than 30 people and Pete had right around the 45 or so. Even before we got a count on the first alignment, the Biden people bailed and went to Pete or Amy.
When we got to the first alignment, the totals were: Viable Sanders - 111 Warren - 68 Buttigieg - 47 Unviable Klobuchar - 36 Yang - 17 Steyer - 4 Biden - 2 Undecided - 1 I hand counted the viables, and just took the reports from the unviables, so this adds up to 1 extra.pic.twitter.com/pSt05Lo0Dl
On the second alignment, we got our totals: Sanders + 5 = 116 Warren + 14 = 82 Buttigieg + 26 = 73 Non-aligned = 11 We lost a couple people who just had to leave at this point.pic.twitter.com/41zsGonbwH
So the formula to apportion delegates is the total numbers after 2nd alignment x (the total number of delegates) / (the total of people at the caucus). So these 2nd alignment numbers x 6 / 285 Sanders: 2.44 Warren: 1.72 Buttigieg: 1.53 That rounds out to two delegates each.pic.twitter.com/00QkeQ9nS1
These are the results that I've been trying to report for about 2 hours now. I was on hold for about 90 min, CNN wanted to interview about my experience, and in that moment I got off hold ... but couldn't get on fast enough and they hung up on me. I'm back on hold.
And for those of you in my mentions: clearly I think this is really messed up too! I don't think this is a way to do democracy. I was just following the rules and this is the outcome the rules got us. If I can ever get the results reported ... still on hold.
Update: I got connected a little after 11 pm and reported my results. With all the complicated things to report (total, first alignment, caveats about the math and totals, etc.) it took almost 20 minutes to report. Starting to understand why I was on hold for so long ...
Here's another thread with some more context on the caucus. Even though the delays in reporting are getting the most coverage, the biggest problems with the #IACaucus were baked in before we got in the room last night.https://twitter.com/shawnsebastian/status/1224670253231288320 …
Shit show
Listening to him getting hung up on while he was talking to @wolfblitzer was a classic tv moment. I predict that it’ll be the meme of the day tomorrow. @CNN
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