2020 presidential candidate 'crats

[catastrophe]

Did any of this matter?

Isn't that your decision to make?

No. If it was, I’d declare that it didn’t and officially appoint Biden as the nominee. I’m asking if whatever the results of this thing were will have any impact on who the nominee ends up being.

Maybe you should ask the candidates who all spent like an entire month meeting with and speaking to tiny groups of Iowans.

[catastrophe]

I've been hesitant to outright call Pete and his campaign scummy, far be it from me to intentionally hurt catastrophe and spracne's feelings. However, what Pete's communication director in Iowa did tonight is 100% scumbag behavior.

https://twitter.com/bhalle87/status/1224558925946793985

If you're not able to follow, this dude tweeted out the pin number that the caucus workers have to use to report the votes. Least you think he did it on accident, by my count he did it 17 different times. To repeat the communications director of for Pete Buttigieg gave out 17 different pin numbers that are used to report results. He still hasn't taken them down despite literally hundreds of people letting him know what he did.

What’s the concern with publicizing the pin? And I mean that as an actual question. I have no clue.

[sonofdaxjones]

buttigieg presumably has some pretty good intel that they won at least one of the reported votes.  otherwise, the media is gonna drag him for this.

https://twitter.com/paigelav/status/1224565861823938560

Oh really? Would you "drag" him for it if he only got 2d or 3d?

So Paige just described every "I claim victory" speech in political history.   

[sonofdaxjones]

Overall I give Iowa an A+ . . . in being a total cluster eff.

#believeinus #confidence

[8manpick]

I've been hesitant to outright call Pete and his campaign scummy, far be it from me to intentionally hurt catastrophe and spracne's feelings. However, what Pete's communication director in Iowa did tonight is 100% scumbag behavior.

https://twitter.com/bhalle87/status/1224558925946793985

If you're not able to follow, this dude tweeted out the pin number that the caucus workers have to use to report the votes. Least you think he did it on accident, by my count he did it 17 different times. To repeat the communications director of for Pete Buttigieg gave out 17 different pin numbers that are used to report results. He still hasn't taken them down despite literally hundreds of people letting him know what he did.

What’s the concern with publicizing the pin? And I mean that as an actual question. I have no clue.

I wondered this too... is the system so insecure that someone who has a pin that is written on a worksheet going around the room could just report whatever results they want?

[8manpick]

Also, I assume that the political writers for the Des Moines Register are the long term losers here, when Iowa goes 17th in 2024

[chum1]

Biggest surprise for me is how absolutely lousy at campaigning Biden is. It's like everyone assumed he would just naturally be good at it and that's the sole reason he ever had any chance. Because when you actually see him in action you're like, "man, this guy's a dumb jackass."

[steve dave]

lmao


https://twitter.com/abiwilks/status/1224648770463371265


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[star seed 7]

That's a very good tweet lol

[michigancat]

the bernie bros are going all in on the mayo pete fixing the caucus conspiracy

https://twitter.com/nandorvila/status/1224575200509014016?s=20

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1224561674679488513?s=20

also LOL at a political startup being named "SHADOW"

[steve dave]

Bernie and Trump supporters have a lot in common.


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[chum1]

Wow. Trending: #MayorCheat

[michigancat]

Bernie and Trump supporters have a lot in common.


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It reminds me more of hillary supporters blaming the russians for everything

[catastrophe]

Yeah I’d like to meet the 23 year old dummy who thought SHADOW was a good name to develop vote counting software under.

[michigancat]

Yeah I’d like to meet the 23 year old dummy who thought SHADOW was a good name to develop vote counting software under.

https://twitter.com/uifreebies/status/1224598119574171648?s=20

[michigancat]

side note: my company hired a former hillary tech guy and I naturally assumed he was a giant fuckup and then he was fired but now he's got like a better job so what do I know

[chum1]

Why are Bernie's people lashing out at Pete rather than the DNC? Are they just saving that for later?

[ChiComCat]

side note: my company hired a former hillary tech guy and I naturally assumed he was a giant fuckup and then he was fired but now he's got like a better job so what do I know

I've learned to never doubt people's ability to fail upwards

[michigancat]

Why are Bernie's people lashing out at Pete rather than the DNC? Are they just saving that for later?

plenty of folks are lashing out at the DNC

side note: my company hired a former hillary tech guy and I naturally assumed he was a giant fuckup and then he was fired but now he's got like a better job so what do I know

I've learned to never doubt people's ability to fail upwards

I mean once you get to a certain level in a certain circle it's unreal.

[Trim]

And stop acting like Washington State isn't filled with hobos, the klan, and weirdo militia doomsday preppers. It's Colorado with more white people, shittier food and weather. This is embarrassing especially given the population of the state.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2019-11-13/fbi-report-california-washington-report-highest-number-of-hate-crimes

“Us” as in EMAWs, mocking iowans as in cyclONEnation.

[Rage Against the McKee]

In the only Kansas caucus I have been to, you just show up, write down you candidate on a piece of paper, toss it in a jar, and then leave. They have videos playing of each candidate that you can sit around and watch if you hate yourself. They also had some cookies that you could eat and some coffee that you could pour into a to go cup. I think maybe if you show up at the very start of the thing, people might actually show up to speak and I'm not sure if you can vote before they are finished or not.

[MakeItRain]

I've been hesitant to outright call Pete and his campaign scummy, far be it from me to intentionally hurt catastrophe and spracne's feelings. However, what Pete's communication director in Iowa did tonight is 100% scumbag behavior.

https://twitter.com/bhalle87/status/1224558925946793985

If you're not able to follow, this dude tweeted out the pin number that the caucus workers have to use to report the votes. Least you think he did it on accident, by my count he did it 17 different times. To repeat the communications director of for Pete Buttigieg gave out 17 different pin numbers that are used to report results. He still hasn't taken them down despite literally hundreds of people letting him know what he did.

What’s the concern with publicizing the pin? And I mean that as an actual question. I have no clue.

I wondered this too... is the system so insecure that someone who has a pin that is written on a worksheet going around the room could just report whatever results they want?

The answer is yes. The system relies on about 10,000 volunteers to report results, many of which commit late in the process. Having advanced levels of security is pretty difficult to make work with this system. In actuality this probably didn't have any effect on the results, I'd hope the system doesn't allow you to report twice with two different results. The issue is the hubris and entitlement the campaign has operated under. Making the volunteers show the Buttigieg show them those sheets, then taking pictures of them, then tweeting them out without redacting what amounts to rectal passwords, is ridiculous. No other campaign has done this once, they did it 17 times.

[star seed 7]

I do not like that move by Pete's guy

[catastrophe]

Yeah redact the rough ridin' PINs BEN!

[8manpick]

I've been hesitant to outright call Pete and his campaign scummy, far be it from me to intentionally hurt catastrophe and spracne's feelings. However, what Pete's communication director in Iowa did tonight is 100% scumbag behavior.

https://twitter.com/bhalle87/status/1224558925946793985

If you're not able to follow, this dude tweeted out the pin number that the caucus workers have to use to report the votes. Least you think he did it on accident, by my count he did it 17 different times. To repeat the communications director of for Pete Buttigieg gave out 17 different pin numbers that are used to report results. He still hasn't taken them down despite literally hundreds of people letting him know what he did.

What’s the concern with publicizing the pin? And I mean that as an actual question. I have no clue.

I wondered this too... is the system so insecure that someone who has a pin that is written on a worksheet going around the room could just report whatever results they want?

The answer is yes. The system relies on about 10,000 volunteers to report results, many of which commit late in the process. Having advanced levels of security is pretty difficult to make work with this system.

This seems like a bad way to run even a student council election.