Pete had a captain at all 1700 precincts. Their Iowa comms director has been tweeting pictures of the results of several precincts. The results will eventually come out, but Pete’s team has to have the data to declare victory like this. Remarkable outcome in Iowa! Shame that a few posters are propagating conspiracy theories to undercut this moment.
Unless, of course, the campaigns know all the results since, you know, they have people in all the precincts. That's the difference between a caucus and a primary.
If Pete won he won. Everyone has precinct captains that count their votes. If this dude didn't win and he came out with a victory speech you guys better come with the same energy.
His campaign is finished if he prematurely declared victory. And I agree that candidates have their precinct captains also feeding them data. Pete’s team is the only one tweeting them out and declaring victory.
Pete declared victory without final votes. Caucus, Primary doesn't matter. I said it was a good strategy. It's sneaky as f-ck. He has all the headlines because he declared victory and that all that matters.
If he has the internal data that indicates he won and the results substantiate that later, will you give up on characterizing him as sneaky? Iowa is a springboard state for candidates and Pete has the right to capture that momentum if he in fact is the winner. If the numbers later show that Pete did not win, he will be rightfully eviscerated.
Naw man, the dude is sneaky. But of course, if results say he wins, he wins. The one thing I know about elections is people try to stop you from voting, but if you get there, they will count the vote.
Honestly, I don't think anyone would care. A very easy one to play off by saying they were going off got bad data. I just personally don't like a claim of victory when there such immense confusion at the moment, and others are saying Sanders/Buttigieg and maybe even Warren are all bunched up.
This is fun: One county chair says he's giving up trying to call in results tonight From CNN’s Kelly Mena Des Moines County Democratic Co-chair Tom Courtney tells CNN that he tried for 15-30 minutes to send in results on the mobile app before giving up and calling in to the hotline. When that didn’t work either, he made plans to call in the results tomorrow morning. "I will try tomorrow, but I have a doctor's appointment in the morning so it might be 10 a.m. by the time I turn in results," Courtney said. He had 118 caucus goers, down from more than 200 from past election cycles. His caucus ended around 8:30 p.m. local time.
See this is why anybody making a claim of victory is a bad idea, there are 3 candidates claiming they are in the mix for the W.
Easy? That's not even really pertinent or anything. Not that funny either. I expect more from you and The Onion.
This is what I have heard from the local Des Moines news. The app was forced on them from the DNC. The app didn't work. There was a phone hot line which was busy all night. The third backup was to take photos of the tallies. There was also a new process where they were taking three different tallies that seemed slightly confusing. There is no conspiracy. All the local caucuses (there are around 1,700 of them) have the votes, they just can't get them into the state center to tally the results. They don't expect to have them until tomorrow. The local stations have all signed off the air.
