These are all the clever people who want to run the country, right? Are going to sort out healthcare, inequality, with central government plans?
Iowa caucus results: what we know so far
Democratic presidential primary contest descends into chaos in midwestern state
Have a heart, Timmy. Results can’t just doctor themselves.
Feels a lot as if the wrong candidate won, and by too big a margin for the usual chicanery to deal with. The Dems need to call in the Global Warming Historic Temperature Adjusters.
Sir Steve Sailer has a lovely piece on it.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/cnn-dont-worry-the-democrats-have-got-things-under-control/#comment-3697141
Who needs the Russians to help throw an election when you have the Democratic Party?
Evidently the same people who built the Obamacare website were hired to build the Iowa tabulation app.
Good job, Democrats. Now get out there and sell yourselves on being the competent ones! You know, the ones who care run the healthcare and energy sectors.
It seems that Shadow, Inc., the company that developed the tabulation app that failed so spectacularly is run by a bunch of former operatives from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
That shouldn’t upset the Bernie Bros at all.
Well done, Septics.
Is there ever a downside to would be leaders and their supporters demonstrating that they’re a bunch of clowns?
Obama’s getting a bit of a kicking over this as well. Former Democrat White House staffer:
They aren’t septics, Lud, they’re Democrats.
Where was Putin? The people need to know.
The problem with awarding contracts to cronies is that they need to be smart enough to hire at least one competent person on the team that can deliver or at least sub-contract to a team and just take off their managment %
It seems that Shadow, Inc., the company that developed the tabulation app that failed so spectacularly is run by a bunch of former operatives from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign
Imagine calling your company “Shadow Inc” tho.
I presume “S.P.E.C.T.R.E” was taken.
They seem to have successfully sold the incompetence meme, but these comparison pics might point to corruption:
https://twitter.com/materialfag/status/1224518805138833408?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1224518805138833408
You’re not in a good place if your best answer is that you’re a useless bunch of twats.
I’ve been chortling all day over this. Almost took my mind off our own
governmentuseless bunch of twats.Breaking News
Iowa caucus won by Hellary Clinton, all other candidates died when bus’s brakes failed and drove over cliff
White House reacts to chaos in Iowa caucus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkGUdPub2fs
Marc Short: If Dems can’t run a caucus, how can they run a country?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7fJvfFTFAQ
So basically the democrats gave a bunch of money to a company run by democrat cronies (https://reason.com/2020/02/04/dems-want-to-run-the-country-but-they-cant-even-run-an-election-in-iowa/) and then wonder why the shit doesn’t work. This is basically a case study in why centralised planning without incentives doesn’t work because you buy from “good people” instead of stuff that works
“ Where was Putin? The people need to know.”
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Rumor has it that Richard Murphy will be hired to sort it all out. Given what’s happened in the past 24 hours, I find it hard to disbelieve. The only hold-up, I’m told, is that Murphy doesn’t want to come to the USA and be trapped in Duh Moines by an outbreak of chlorinated chickens.
Bloody hell, the Dems really are a Mafia. Via >a href=”https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/iowa-caucuses-the-blob-and-the-democratic>Matt Stoller’s newsletter. Its a long read but worth it:
The technical incompetence of the Democrats’ IT contractor suggests to me that its the salespeople in the high tech companies who are aggressively “liberal” while most of the quietly competent techies are apolitical or mild Republicans (is there a difference?)
Was thinking what the scope of work might be
-about 2,000 sites
-submitting numbers from a manual count
-couple of rounds (independently counted)
-11 candidates to vote for for most probably less than 40 pieces of data per site need to be recorded
-secure login for users
-data for each site to be summed up only and % calculates
-No complex calculation, no vote reassignment
Not exactly a difficult task, if they have existing party login id/identity then even easier.
Reckon you could send every site a spreadsheet, have them send it back and manually aggregate data and report quicker than this screw up
In fact the reporting aspect seems to be the easiest part, simple addition and a % so screwing that up is even worse.
@ BniC
For most simple jobs, computerisation slows things down. I’ve been in charge of more than one computerised reporting system (that I did not design) and I know.
Half a century ago I could have programmed a computer to do the sums for the Iowa caucuses but I should have pointed out that it was quicker by hand – and back then someone would have listened.
I’m afraid that the level of incompetence shown appears to be similar to that possessed by whoever it is that advised Boris that we can all use electric vehicles by 2035…
As clever people Mr Worstall (& Richard) can’t be bothered to put on Youtube, or even provide Al-Beeb prog name or link
Not listened yet, but not on NEF channel….
* debate? Tim said he had to submit his audio file in advance – oh, it’s an EU Parliament type non-debate debate
Breaking News
Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, and Biden claim the top spots as Iowa caucus results trickle in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YojpYx1epJc
Tucker: Democrats know Bernie Sanders can win [nomination] and they’re scared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNujIvbPN0
It has now been about 24 hours since the caucus. The results stand at 62% of the precincts reporting. That is more than enough time to have written the results down and driven them to Democrat headquarters. The Pony Express could have delivered them faster. Iowa is not that big a state.
In other news; Trump took all of the delagates but one on the Republican side. William Weld got a lone delagate.
This is a trivial data-handling task. Even the authentication and verification issues are off-the-peg. I’ve written things for my own amusement in an afternoon that are more technically challenging. Essentially, the Democrats, who lose no time in telling people they represent the smart, the tech-savvy, the scientifically-literate, have not mastered the technical challenge of counting how many people there are in each corner of a high school gymnasium and reliably communicating those numbers to a third party. Meanwhile, the stump-jawed yokels of the Republican party had no trouble whatsoever. And this is all assuming you even need to do this electronically. Those handheld tally clicker things they use at the cinema and that you can buy on Amazon for $15 a six-pack are all the technology you need., that and a reporter’s notebook to write the numbers down, some witnesses for each candidate to certify, and a phone. A caucus ought to be even faster to tally than a primary, because the number of participants is so minute. It’s an utterly ludicrous way to choose a candidate, of course, and with any luck this debacle will help grease the skids.