Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Iowa Caucus Results; Biden Tanks -- 4:00 P.M. CT -- February 4, 2020

62% of "results" to be released momentarily.

Press conference beginning.

Seems to start with Q&A: Iowa Democrat party chair looks cynical. Leaves the stage abruptly. [Only question: when does he get fired?]

Only 62% will be released now. No word when all results will be released. Press conference seems unsatisfactory. [62% of what? And why only 62%?]

Ten minutes later, still not being reported.

All precincts will be reporting, but only 62% of the results. That's what they said. [Of course that makes no sense; later we are told that 62% of the precincts would be reporting.]  Most interesting: we were told that results would be released at 4:00 p.m. CT. Didn't happen.

Results released at 4:10 p.m. CT.

62% of precincts provided:
  • 26.9: Buttigieg
  • 25.1: Sanders
  • 18.3: Warren
  • 15.6: Biden
  • Klobuchar: 13%
  • Yang: 1%
41 delegates at stake, first pass:
  • Buttigieg: 30% of 41 = 12 delegates (twice the number of popular votes than Biden)
  • Sanders: 30% of 41 = 12 delegates
  • Warren: 21% of 41 = 9 delegates
  • Biden: 19% of 41 = 8 delegates
February 5, 2020, 10:46 a.m. ET, The New York Times, and only 71% of precincts reporting:
  • Buttigieg, 26.8%: 11 delegates
  • Sanders, 35.2%: 11 delegates
  • Pocahontas, 18.4%: 5 delegates
  • Biden,15.4%: 0 delegates
  • Amy, legend in her own mind, punching above her weight, 12.6%: 0 delegates
  • Steyer, the village idiot, 0.3%; 0 delegates

2 comments:

  1. Some info on the Libya situation:

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottcarpenter/2020/01/31/libyan-oil-blockade-could-drag-on-for-months/#2f16fa935071

    Basically Haftar controls the physical infrastructure but can't get paid for the oil because of US finkery. So, he's had enough and is closing it all down. Maybe he will get smart and start smuggling it into Egypt or the like.

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    1. Thank you, I appreciate that. I don't post much on Libya so this brings readers up to date.

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