2020, the election campaigns have begun

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So the Iowa Democratic Party released some partial results, 65% or so.  So far, Sanders is leading in the popular vote count, but Buttigieg is getting the most nominating delegates, because even within Iowa, rural areas get more votes than urban and suburban counties.  It's among the finest of American traditions, going back to when slaves counted as two-thirds of a person.

(Why Saunders? They certainly don't want Biden to get the nod …

This theory sounds absolutely fabulous.

Yeah, but it does match up with the observed evidence.

So the app that people couldn't use was produced by a company named, get this, Shadow.  Buttigieg payed Shadow for other services like text messaging apps... and somehow came out in the lead in this election.  Coincidence?  RT news doesn't seem to think so.

"We’re not even going to bother to dig into lessons learned because they are the same ones that every sysadmin since the dawn of time has dealt with – and spends their entire career warning the suits about, to greater and lesser degrees of success."