Thread by @frodofied

Christ, this is why caucuses must end. This is another lesson we have been taught several times, yet never seem to learn.

I lived in a caucus state and can attest to what a chaotic, stressful, and exhausting process it can be at the best of times.

Iowa has become a farce.

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Caucuses are exclusionary, anti-democratic, and ask too much of parties, candidates, and voters.

And it is so easy to fuck them up, and even the slightest error leads to instant conspiracy theories that can always be "verified" by eyewitness accounts.

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Rarely can these accounts themselves be verified, however, and soon become the basis for any number of copycat story or for more and more exaggerated forms of the original unverified claim. This, of course, causes many to begin to question the very validity of the results.

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Iowa becomes a win/win for the Sanders campaign no matter what the final results reflect at this point.

If he wins, surrogates will claim victory despite obvious shenanigans by the state party. If he loses, they will claim the process was outright rigged.

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