Reminder: There was a new blog post this morning entitled, “Bipartisan ‘meritocracy’ and ‘vote Blue no matter who’.”
Iowa
There has been no further progress in the count. None.
In the meantime, as the doubts I predicted[1] spread on Twitter, where some point to what they think is dubious rounding that somehow very often seemed to work against Bernie Sanders, Tom Perez is calling for the math to be done again.[2]
Despite Perez’ embarrassment, it’s not yet clear to me that the ‘recanvass’ will actually occur. Apparently, a campaign has to request it and foot the bill for it.[3]
Rod Dreher, at the American Conservative, suspects the timing of Perez’ call, coming as it does, just as Sanders is beginning to look like he might pass Pete Buttigieg.[4]
Rod Dreher, “DNC Sandbagging Bernie?” American Conservative, February 6, 2020, https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/democrats-dnc-sandbagging-bernie/
Isaac Stanley-Becker, “DNC chair calls for recanvass in Iowa,” Washington Post, February 6, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-chair-calls-for-recanvas-in-iowa/2020/02/06/0ec4dc4c-4906-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html
- [1]David Benfell, “Neoliberal hubris and the Iowa fiasco,” Not Housebroken, February 5, 2020, https://disunitedstates.org/2020/02/05/neoliberal-hubris-and-the-iowa-fiasco/↩
- [2]Isaac Stanley-Becker, “DNC chair calls for recanvass in Iowa,” Washington Post, February 6, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-chair-calls-for-recanvas-in-iowa/2020/02/06/0ec4dc4c-4906-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html↩
- [3]Isaac Stanley-Becker, “DNC chair calls for recanvass in Iowa,” Washington Post, February 6, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dnc-chair-calls-for-recanvas-in-iowa/2020/02/06/0ec4dc4c-4906-11ea-9164-d3154ad8a5cd_story.html↩
- [4]Rod Dreher, “DNC Sandbagging Bernie?” American Conservative, February 6, 2020, https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/democrats-dnc-sandbagging-bernie/↩