For political — and even apolitical — people in Iowa, this has been a catastrophe all out of proportion to the technical and training glitches that produced it. ed_kilgore reports from Iowa
It’s not a good day to be in Des Moines. Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images For political media and regular old political junkies, the meltdown in the Iowa caucus results tabulation and reporting system was deeply annoying. Very highly paid TV gabbers were left with little to say, other than to lash out at the very self-conscious people of this proud and sometimes sensitive state.
The most judgment of what last night meant came from a journalist who owes every bit of his national fame to the caucuses:Here in Des Moines, as the TV pundits spat fire at the caucuses last night, there was a growing sense of horror among locals that this was indeed a breakdown moment for the state’s political influence and legacy. It wasn’t confined to Democrats.
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