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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll Of Iowa Really Did Show Biden In Fourth  —  If you're the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register …
BuzzFeed News:
The Iowa Caucus Results Are Still Delayed And Campaigns Are Angry  —  The Iowa Democratic Party is delaying releasing the results of Monday night's Iowa caucus because of reporting inconsistencies, infuriating campaigns eager to move on with the election.  —  “We found inconsistencies …
Discussion: Mediaite, Slate and Talking Points Memo
Tom Perez:
How We Prepared for 2020  —  Tonight, our party's presidential nominating process officially kicks off in Iowa.  Today, I'm reflecting on the three years we've spent preparing for this moment, the changes we've made to make sure we are ready.  I'm proud of the historic reforms we passed …
Discussion: PJ Media Home
New York Times:
Iowa Caucus Results 2020: Live  —  Iowa Democratic officials say a delay in results is largely because of a “quality control” effort.  Read more.  —  51m ago  —  Candidate Votes S.D.E.s* Pct.  Pledged delegates Del.  —  1,811  —  1,636  —  1,553  —  View all candidates
Discussion: Redstate and TalkLeft
New York Times:
‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down  —  Unexplained “inconsistencies” in results, heated conference calls and firm denials of hacking left the contest in a strange state of almost suspended animation.  —  DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and Shero
New York Times:
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested  —  The state Democratic Party commissioned a new app to tabulate caucus results.  It did not appear to go as planned.  —  DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign Ejects Bloomberg News Reporter From Iowa News Conference  —  President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer to approve credentials for the news organization.  —  Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs …
Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion seizes Iowa as officials struggle to report results  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A technical meltdown in Iowa Monday night set off bedlam in the critical first contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, triggering competing claims of victory and stoking doubts …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Democrats Did the Russians' Work for Them  —  Iowa Democrats brought this conspiracy theory on themselves.  —  The Iowa Democratic party had one job: tally the results for the party's first-in-nation caucus.  It's almost unbelievable the Democrats could fail to perform what has been, in previous years, an exceedingly trivial task.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Frustration, questions as delays hamper Iowa caucuses  —  Frustrations mounted late Monday night after the Iowa Democratic Party said it found “inconsistencies” in the reporting of the caucus results and delayed releasing any precinct vote tallies to ensure the integrity of the election.
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Iowa caucus mess nothing compared to intra-Democratic Party chaos on the horizon  —  The Iowa caucuses reveal not only a Democratic Party deliriously incompetent at handling a vote tally — this from the folks who have been screaming about voting fraud and irregularities for years …
NBC News:
Results for Iowa caucuses delayed as state Democratic Party finds ‘inconsistencies’
Discussion: Spectator USA, The Verge and Axios
John F. Harris / Politico:
The winner is ... no one  —  “Iowa,” a smiling Pete Buttigieg said …
Discussion: Breitbart
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
R.I.P. the ‘First-In-the-Nation’ Iowa Caucuses (1972-2020)
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:   The Iowa caucuses just died forever
New York Times:   The 1,600 Volunteers Who Were Supposed to Make the Iowa Caucuses Run Smoothly
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump claims he'll protect Iowa's first-in-the-nation status
Discussion: ABC News, The Hill and Political Wire
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy
Discussion: Associated Press and Raw Story
Tim Alberta / Politico:   The death of Iowa  —  DES MOINES — There can be no doubting it now …
Axios:
The Iowa caucus ends in a meltdown
Discussion: The Hill, Disrn and Associated Press
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Iowa Democratic vote-reporting meltdown hands opening to Trump
Discussion: The Capitolist and WHOTV
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:   So far, there's only one loser in Iowa: The state's Democratic party
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read.
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Technical glitches delay Iowa Democratic caucus results
Discussion: Slate
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:   Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Biden Campaign Demands Iowa Dems Explain ‘Acute Failures’ in Caucus Results Reporting
Discussion: Redstate, Instapundit and WHOTV
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:   AP VoteCast: Iowa Democratic voters seek fundamental change
Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band  —  President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.
David Enrich / New York Times:
The Money Behind Trump's Money  —  The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.  —  One Day in early 2017, Mike Offit went to the Yale Club in Manhattan for a lunch hosted by a group called Business Executives for National Security.
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process  —  In trying to build a forecast model of the Democratic primaries, we literally had to think about the entire process from start (Iowa) to finish (the Virgin Islands on June 6).  Actually, we had to do more than that.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies  —  Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information.  Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also...  BY - GABRIEL SHERMAN  —  Person of Interest
George Prayias / The Rush Limbaugh Show:
Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis  —  RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this... This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I've known this moment was coming in the program today.  Now, I'm sure that you all know by now, I really don't like talking about myself …
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David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: 'I would like a medal …
Discussion: NB Blog
Brian Stelter / CNN:
White House excludes CNN from annual pre-SOTU lunch with news anchors  —  New York (CNN Business)President Donald Trump's targeting of CNN is moving to yet another arena: The annual presidential lunch with television network anchors.  —  CNN anchors are being excluded from Tuesday's lunch, three sources said on Monday night.
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation  —  The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.
 
 
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