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Iowa Democrats couldn’t have picked a worse time to mess up

5 February 2020

5:10 AM

5 February 2020

5:10 AM

What happened — or didn’t happen — in Iowa last night is unbelievably bad. It is an international embarrassment, one that will raise legitimate (as well as silly) questions about the state of American democracy and accountability. The failure of this new app to collate and transmit voter data from the Caucus will have especially painful consequences for the Democrats — not just for their candidates, but for the party as a whole.

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