“Why Iowa in the first place, it’s 90% white” -Van Jones on CNN

He’s not wrong, but it’s funny to hear

Iowa represents the current (D) primary field quite well then.

nytimes too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/02/opinion/iowa-new-hampshire-primary.html

tldr: Iowa and NH are too white, the Democratic party should just coerce all candidates into not competing there and start the primary process with more diverse states like New York.

The government conducts primaries at taxpayer expense, and invites generally disinterested parties (people who show up, vote, and then come back in 4 years), and in the case of open primaries, allows partisans of opposing parties to help select a party's candidate (choosing your opposition). Caucus systems are unwieldy, yes. But they are paid for by the parties themselves, and are open to members of the party and people who openly affiliate with the party.

lol, fuckin iowa. the dirty south of the midwest.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Feb 4 2020 11:13am

the problem with caucuses is their huge time investment and inaccessibility, which causes them to skew heavily towards the super-engaged party activist crowd, which in turn skews young, white, college-educated and very liberal on the Democratic side. they disadvantage candidates like Biden with a less white, less engaged and more working-class base.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 4 2020 11:21am

Is there any ETA on when the official results are there?

Called it!

https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1224744589019549696

They now plan (sic!) to release the Iowa results around 4pm CT, or 5pm ET. The SOTU address is scheduled to take place at around 9pm ET.


^balrog66

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Feb 4 2020 11:29am

Anything that involves a fucking coin toss should be trashed. This is stupid.