US election 2020

[stui magpie]

Look, I didn't say it was a good diet, just that it wasn't Maccas only. It is mainly fast food with no vegetables, it's what a 14 year old would eat if you gave them an apartment and an Uber Eats account.

Despite that, he doesn't drink alcohol and doesn't smoke so he's actually in reasonable shape.

What's Bernie's diet look like?

[Pi]

^
ate lobster bisque and was brusque towards the staff

https://sfist.com/2019/08/27/bernie-sanders-reportedly-grumpy-and-rude-to-staff-at-johns-grill/

socialist dictators like expensive seafood...
https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/dining-with-the-dictator-these-are-some-of-kim-jong-uns-favorite-foods.html/

so the Bern is keeping up with the communists.... imagine that as a reality show ...

[David]

[David]

Iowa begins voting in 30 minutes, with most results expected to come through at around 3pm Melbourne time. The New York Times currently gives Sanders a 35% chance of winning as opposed to Biden's 28% (with Warren and Buttigieg as more outside chances on 13% and 18% respectively). The result of this is a huge deal, not just because it's the first state but because it will shape the narrative in a lot of ways – Biden is a pretty shaky candidate who needs some early results on the board to back up his main case for nomination, which is that he's the most electable, and common wisdom is that that support will start to drop away if he doesn't bag some early states. Sanders will gain a lot of momentum from this if he wins, particularly given that he's odds-on to smash the rest of the field in the second voting state, New Hampshire, but a loss would blunt a lot of that. Warren's candidacy has been dropping like a stone in the last couple of months, but a win here would be a huge boost, and perhaps bring back a few undecided supporters who jumped over to Sanders. Buttigieg is pretty much all-in on Iowa and may as well drop out of the race entirely if he doesn't have a strong finish here. So there's a lot on the line.

[Wokko]

Not that it means anything but Klobucher won in the Florida satellite caucus (Old Iowans in Florida for winter).

[David]

^ Why doesn’t that surprise me.

[Wokko]

https://www.thecaucuses.org/

Should start posting results soon, it's 7:21pm central now.

[Wokko]

Don't forget there's a Republican caucus going on too, Trump has been primaried.

[David]

^ No surprises there, lol.

Buttigieg is making an early running in the Dem primary, but Sanders isn't far behind. Further back a little way, Biden and Warren both seem to be underperforming expectations – a dead heat in third between those two and Klobuchar at this stage. I'm not quite sure how far they're into counting yet, however.

[David]

Ok, I just checked and all results being reported are super early – we're only talking 2-3% of the vote having been counted at this point. But early signs are Buttigieg and Sanders are neck and neck and Biden is tanking badly (Warren is perhaps doing a bit better than I suggested above – she sits very clearly in third right now).

[thesoretoothsayer]

[Wokko]

Looks like the "Moderates" want some of that Bootyjudge. Biden looking done, he's had some horrible results.

[Wokko]

Apparently the app (yep, an app) that the Iowa DNC are using to report results isn't working and nobody knows who owns it. There are also serious security concerns around it (and knowing the DNC that's a legit concern).

[think positive]

some funny comments about the glitch!

i cant find anywhere that is really tracking live?

[David]

Sanders campaign already using internal results collection to claim victory. Hope this doesn’t come back to bite them!

https://interc.pt/387msiN