Joe Biden probably just won the Iowa Caucus...

[brooklynite]

Remember, NO DELEGATES WERE awarded on Caucus night. The measure you heard about was “State Delegate EQUIVALENTS”, an estimated figure. Actually, delegates to a County Caucus were awarded. They will select delegates to Congressional District Caucuses and eventually a Statewide COnvention who will select delegates for Milwaukee. Those local delegates for Buttigieg and Klobuchar will likely convert to Biden delegates over the course of the Statewide process, added to the delegates he won in the first place.

[spicysista]

1. Woah!

[madaboutharry]

2. This is true.

[True Blue American]

3. Oops!

[Amishman]

4. I'll take it, but that is bizarre and just one more reason caucuses need to go away

[Sherman A1]

5. Certainly seems like a backwards way of getting there

but, whatever.....

I will vote for the nominee in November whoever it is.

[hlthe2b]

6. Exactly. Even though I support Biden, this really seems untenable.

[calimary]

15. Agreed.

[honest.abe]

7. Love it!

Do you know when the statewide convention will be?

[brooklynite]

11. County Conventions on March 21...

Congressional District Conventions on April 25
Statewide Convention on June 13

[honest.abe]

12. Thanks!

[Hortensis]

18. Are the county conventions expected to give us a pretty good

idea of the direction this is likely to go, or will that have to wait for the district or state level?

[slumcamper]

8. Exhausting!

Since 1984, I've been a part of this multistage, multijurisdictional process in Iowa. The older I get, the more exhausting it is. These events cost the IDP precious resources that might be better used for candidate support, GOTV efforts, and such things. It also limits participation to a small subset of the electorate whose lives afford the opportunity to attend a 2-3 hour caucus on a Monday night in the dead of winter..

GET RID OF IT!!!

[dsc]

9. I must say that sucks

if no votes at the convention happen for Pete I will be despondent. History will be unmade.

[Hortensis]

17. Only a technical detail of it. It's a real advance that

wasn't undone when Buttigieg pulled out of the race, relinquishing his delegate equivalents then.

[Botany]

10. I am now all in for Joe but this is one more reason we have to dump these caucuses

Election Reforms:

Paper Ballots
Longer windows of time to allow for voting
Make sure all legit votes are counted
Get rid of caucuses
Presidential Elections .... 6 months beginning to end .... soup to nuts .... 2 1/2 years is just too damn long
Get rid of the electoral college
End Gerrymandering
No more voter I.D. laws .... nobody is voting twice
Get rid of interstate cross check
Get rid of electronic voting machines
Severe Penalties for working with foreign governments and or agents in our elections
Stop voter purges
Get rid of Citizen's United ... get the dark money out of the system

In 2016 McConnell knew the fix was in ... see Merrick Garland

[efhmc]

13. Texas did get rid of them I think in 2015. The one nice thing about this process was

the personal contact with other Dems that you got especially in small red counties like mine.

[OnDoutside]

19. Ironically, Ilhan Omar was on with Ari Melber bemoaning the replacement of caucuses, and you can

imagine why !

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. Can it get any more stupid? Sheesh

[cally]

16. Iowa caucuses have to end

What a ridiculous system. And I am a Warren supporter.

[dem4decades]

20. Voter turnout increases dramatically. Stacy Abrams had the percentages, huge.

[Peacetrain]

21. Ahhh yep... we elect delegates at the caucus..

and those delegates vote for the candidates as it goes up the ladder... just like the electoral college.. its a challenge that is for sure..