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The DNC doesn't run the Iowa Caucuses.

Conspiracy theorists will be out in force, but it's important to remind people that the State parties run the elections and their processes.

Edit: Seeing downvotes on this, but it's in support of tptacek's comment. The DNC and State democratic parties are separate and the latter run the elections. You might believe that the DNC is fixing the process, but the reality is that they have little influence in how the States choose to run their election/nomination processes.

In all honesty, the Iowa caucases are likely a huge pain in the ass for them and this failure is probably driving a lot of DNC folks crazy right now.

Tell that to Tom Perez https://twitter.com/jeffzeleny/status/1225472426894647296

Now it seems the DNC also needs to be told it as well: https://news.yahoo.com/shadow-inc-idp-contract-dnc-documents...

What’s the relationship between the Iowa DNC and the “main” DNC?

There's no such thing as an "Iowa DNC". You presumably mean the IDP, the Iowa Democratic Party. They're separate organizations.

The DNC and the state parties are often at odds with each other. There's a good series of "Reply All" episodes about this, focusing on the Alabama Democratic Party.

Since I heard those episodes I've been hoping that the Alabama situation isn't typical. Do you have any special insight about Iowa? Is there an Iowa kingmaker running everything from behind the scenes?

Given that the failed caucus app CEO is married to a Buttigeig staffer and was partying with the Iowa Democratic Party head and other members of the Buttigeig campaign right before the caucuses, I would say so:

https://mobile.twitter.com/taraemcg/status/12239909781277245...

Most notably, the IDP has a strong interest in maintaining their first-to-vote status, which the DNC hates. Hence the eternal drift of primaries earlier and earlier - the DNC will try to move non-Iowa/NH primaries earlier, and those two will in response go even earlier to preempt them. (To the point where New Hampshire even passed a law saying that they have to be the first primary by at least 7 days.)

Looks like the DNC has taken over accounting of the Iowa caucus, so I guess they’re really not so independent.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/05/more-manipul...

Looks like that has changed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/kendallkarson/status/122481061735...

"HuffPost, citing multiple Democratic sources and campaign finance records, reported amid the caucus chaos late Monday that Shadow Inc. was behind the app. ACRONYM, a Democrat-linked technology and campaign consulting nonprofit group, owns Shadow Inc."

"Shadow Inc.’s website has scant information about the firm and its employees. But a review of social media accounts shows that three of the Washington, D.C.-based firm’s top executives worked on the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.

The CEO of Shadow Inc., Gerard Niemira, was the director of product on Clinton’s campaign, his LinkedIn profile says."

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/shadow-inc-mysterious...

This is a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with my comment or with the DNC, the subject of the parent comment, which, again, does not run the Iowa Caucuses.

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