Tuesday, February 4, 2020
So much for Democrat energy: Iowa Caucus first-timer share drops to 35%, down from 44% in 2016 and 57% in 2008
The entrance poll showed just about a third of voters — 35 percent — caucusing this year are first-timers, a lower level than in 2016, when first-timers made up 44 percent of the Hawkeye State's Democratic caucusgoers. And this year's level of new participants is well shy of that in 2008, when a whopping 57 percent of Democrats said they had never caucused before.
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Iowa Democrats bungle caucuses, infuriate candidates, as reporting app developed by Democrat Party of Tech fails
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| Hello? Sum ting wong wit da app. |
“We have no sense when results might come in," said [Mao fangirl] Anita Dunn, a senior adviser to Biden. "We are, as other campaigns are, very concerned with what they might release: the alignment numbers are not adding up." “It’s a total meltdown,” she added. ...
Sanders' supporters were already crying foul. [WaPo slogan stealer] Rep. Ilhan Omar, who campaigned for Sanders in Iowa this weekend, tweeted, "Democracy dies in the darkness!”
Elizabeth Warren's campaign and its allies barely contained their fury at the state party’s bungling of the caucuses. “It’s a mess,” [a trail of tears] campaign manager Roger Lau told reporters. "I think that every single second that passes where we don't get a final result is concerning." ...
The candidates addressed supporters late Monday, not waiting for results. Despite the delay in reporting, Sen. Amy Klobuchar [noted for throwing binders at people] said her campaign knew it was “punching above our weight.” ...
The results delay came after anecdotal reports from precinct caucus chairs early Monday, who said they were having issues with their caucus night reporting apps. The app, developed by the Democratic Party, helps the chairs do the math to help figure out which candidates will meet the viability thresholds Monday night. And it’s a tool to feed the ultimate results to the party in real-time. ...
In Polk County, county Democratic Party chair Sean Bagniewski said only about 20 percent of the chairs would actually be able to use it. “We’re telling everyone to phone it in at this point," Bagniewski said earlier in the day. But that may have set off the next snafu: the phone lines then jammed up.
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Monday, February 3, 2020
Wait until Trump finds out about this, then we're really in trouble
Honestly after three terms in office he still wouldn't get it.
Doug Schoen's 2016 book PUTIN'S MASTER PLAN makes more sense learning he's been on the Ukraine payroll for years
Republican Paul Manafort is not the only one who has been making millions off the Ukrainians for years. Democrats have also long been contesting that ground.
The Wikipedia entry on Schoen says he was making $40k a month from Pinchuk starting in 2000. That's the almost $500k annually "to start" Schachtel mentions in his thread, so yeah, big money for nearly 20 years straight. Schoen, of course, is a Democrat and was closely involved with the Clintons in the past. The Clinton Foundation itself is said to have received as much as $25 million from Pinchuk.
Nah, Superbowl 54 will be remembered for the 49ers just giving up after the Damien Williams touchdown ruling with 2:44 remaining
Which, yeah, ain't great football.
The guy on the right is yuge, has at least 5x more money than the guy on the left . . .
. . . and spends at least 200x more on his presidential campaign than Ben Shapiro makes in a year.
"The current hysteria about coronavirus is irrational"
I thought all hysterias were irrational, but OK.
From the story:
In contrast, other flu viruses in circulation in the U.S. last year took over 34,000 lives, and they are taking a similar toll this year. Yet unlike coronavirus and SARS, these flu viruses have had zero impact on the stock market. This suggests the current hysteria developing about coronavirus is irrational.
Smdh over "impact on the stock market" as a barometer, but let's move on.
34k deaths from flu last year in the US, which would aggregate at the peaks in February, December, March and January in that order on average, would mean average deaths per day over those 121 days of about 280 per day, but only at the extreme. Obviously, not everyone who died of flu that season died in those peak months.
The worst flu season in decades in the US was 2017-18 with roughly 80,000 deaths, according to WaPo. The worst of it lasted 19 weeks. All the deaths obviously didn't occur in those 19 weeks either, but had they the rate would have been 600 per day.
The extreme being claimed in Wuhan is about 700 per day due to coronavirus.
With 200 per day being normal non-epidemic-related-deaths for any given day in Wuhan, there's anecdotal "evidence" of an extra 500 per day.
Such claims may seem hysterical or irrational to some, but they are not.
They are only extreme.
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