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Yep, the DNC planned a whole conspiracy for.... Iowa.

Iowa goes first. It sets the tone of the entire primary. It sucks, it's ridiculous, it's antidemocratic, but it's the reality on the ground, it's an important part of any serious Democrat primary campaign since Carter won it in '76. Without making any claim about the intent of the DNC and the malice/incompetence axis, ~IF~ someone was going to ratfuck a candidate out of a primary victory, Iowa would be an important component.

*Edited for missing word

Pete being able to claim he won is a huge boost for his campaign.

If 100% of the votes come in and the truth is that Bernie won, then there is a very strong case that the DNC cherry-picked results to screw Bernie and take momentum away from his campaign.

Please refrain from baseless speculation about fudged results. Sanders own campaign tabulated numbers basically match the Iowa results so far and there's little reason to believe that the remaining numbers aren't going to largely match the existing result pools.

> basically match the Iowa results so far

Actually, they don't quite match at all.

Sanders campaign released partial results on 4th/Feb that shows Sanders:29% and Buttigieg:24% [1][2]

[1] https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1224578194948468739 [2] https://www.salon.com/2020/02/04/sanders-campaign-releases-i...?

That's pretty close and note those are going to be predominantly from places where Sanders has the most organized physical presence because they're the first ones into his campaign model.

Yes, Iowa impacts everything so that makes complete sense.

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