Why the Turnout in Iowa Has Some Democrats Worried nyti.ms/39erM3M // 75% of Iowa Democrats cannot be bothered to caucus. 2016 = 2020. I've been calling IA, NH, & canvassing in FL, Dems only think they are against Trump, not for anybody or any policy. There are still too
2/ many candidates on the debate stage and too many still running on fumes. My cutoff is at Klobuchar. I don't see Yang & Steyer. I don't think Bloomberg can saturation tv ads to get into the race. Dems are going to need money to beat Trump. I'm surprised that Dems are not
3/ putting ad $$$ into Facebook which is cheaper than tv. Or using radio which is cheaper than tv. And the focus in the debates is on the differences on Medicare For All, while Trump skates free as he & GOP repealed Obamacare, what, 60+ times, and are suing to kill it? The focus
4/ is away from Trump to minutia. And, the mainstream media act as if Warren & Klobuchar don't count. Warren has the most systematic approach to large, structural reforms of politics & economy that media simply ignore. Instead, a flyweight presidential candidate, Buttigieg, gets
5/ lots of fluff media. He has virtually zero naval intelligence experience. Maybe two weeks writing blackbook articles in the UK and 6 months in Kabul closing down his unit. He was so underwhelmed by intelligence work that he broke the boredom by driving around Kabul as his
6/ unit's "uber" driver. The driving was dangerous, but that's not intelligence work. Disposing of your unit's computers is not intelligence work. He did no substantive intelligence briefings in Kabul and tried to stay as far away from flag officers as possible. That is not what 
7/ intelligence analysts do. Real IAs want facetime with the boss. They want a shot at showing the boss they are on top of the problem. They don't run away from flag officers. When NATO was bombing the Bosnian Serbs in 1995, I was the JAC's LNO to JTF Provide Promise producing
8/ four Bomb Damage Assessment books for the most senior decisionmakers in theater. The first day was a 27-hour shift, 4 hours sleep, and a 24-hour shift. The 4-star admiral would come down to watch as I put it together and he could see the results before the book was distro'd.
9/ At the time I was a senior civilian intelligence analyst and a LT USNR. Buttigieg spins his "uber" driving around Kabul as if that is what intelligence analysts do. They don't. He had no intel work to do. And who counts 119 trips unless they are for a political stunt?
