If the results stay the same--and they very well might not--it seems Buttigieg comes out ahead in pledged delegates, 14 to 12 over Sanders.
If Sanders were to take the lead in SDEs, you'd be back at 13-13
If Sanders were to take the lead in SDEs, you'd be back at 13-13
So not only does Sanders do worse in SDEs than votes, he also does worse at converting his SDEs to pledged delegates, since he only leads in one CD: IA-2
Seems like a fitting way to cap this off
Seems like a fitting way to cap this off
The Iowa Democrats decided not to use it. It's not my place to say someone 'won' the Iowa Dems' game by any measure other than the rules they set for it, whatever I may think of those rules
And look, I literally can’t explain to you why they did it, other than inertia. It made no sense once they reported a pop vote and bound pledged delegates to precinct caucuses. But the whole game was played assuming this was the goal and you can’t ignore that
Or, I should say, I can’t ignore that. You can, and that’s totally justifiable. But I’m covering someone else’s contest here, I’m not an organizer, participant or a contestant. And I really don’t believe I can come in and judge by my own measure, whatever the merits of the game
