BIZARRE BREAKING NEWS: Release of Final, "Gold Standard" Pre-Iowa Caucus Poll Is Unexpectedly Cancelled at the Moment Results Are Supposed to Be Announced (9PM)
MORE/ A statement from the DES MOINES REGISTER:
PS/ Who knows what happened here. All I know is that this is humiliating for CNN. I *surmise* (a guess) it'd take more than one complaint to cancel a poll; IOW, is it possible that the unreleased results looked possibly skewed in a way *consistent* with the independent complaint?
UPDATE/ The DES MOINES REGISTER says, "It appears a candidate's name was omitted in at least one interview in which the respondent was asked to name their preferred candidate." Some online say it was Buttigieg who was omitted but to be VERY CLEAR there's NO corroboration of that.
UPDATE2/ The NEW YORK TIMES confirms that a complaint from the Buttigieg camp caused the cancellation of the final DES MOINES REGISTER poll, considered the "gold standard" pre-Iowa caucus poll and a critical measure of what will actually happen on Monday:
