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Clare Malone / FiveThirtyEight:
That Last, Unreleased Des Moines Register Poll Of Iowa Really Did Show Biden In Fourth  —  If you're the sort of person who was glued to political Twitter on Saturday night — and God help you if you are — you would have seen a mass freak-out when it was announced that that the Des Moines Register …
BuzzFeed News:
The Iowa Caucus Results Are Still Delayed And Campaigns Are Angry  —  The Iowa Democratic Party is delaying releasing the results of Monday night's Iowa caucus because of reporting inconsistencies, infuriating campaigns eager to move on with the election.  —  “We found inconsistencies …
Discussion: Slate, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Tom Perez:
How We Prepared for 2020  —  Tonight, our party's presidential nominating process officially kicks off in Iowa.  Today, I'm reflecting on the three years we've spent preparing for this moment, the changes we've made to make sure we are ready.  I'm proud of the historic reforms we passed …
Discussion: PJ Media Home
New York Times:
Iowa Caucus Results 2020: Live  —  Iowa Democratic officials say a delay in results is largely because of a “quality control” effort.  Read more.  —  51m ago  —  Candidate Votes S.D.E.s* Pct.  Pledged delegates Del.  —  1,811  —  1,636  —  1,553  —  View all candidates
Discussion: Redstate and TalkLeft
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Campaign Ejects Bloomberg News Reporter From Iowa News Conference  —  President Trump's re-election campaign escorted a Bloomberg News reporter from an event in Iowa, following a pledge no longer to approve credentials for the news organization.  —  Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs …
NBC News:
Results for Iowa caucuses delayed as state Democratic Party finds ‘inconsistencies’  —  After 11 p.m. ET, no data had yet been made public in the first-in-the-nation voting state.  “The app is f—ing up,” a senior campaign aide said.  —  Iowa Precinct Captain has tried to report results for 2 hours
Discussion: Spectator USA, The Verge and Axios
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:
Iowa entrance poll: Most Dems care more about beating Trump than issues  —  About two-thirds of voters participating in the caucus said they would rather see the Democratic Party nominate a candidate who “can beat Donald Trump.”  —  By a decisive margin, Democrats attending Iowa's Democratic …
ABC News:
Iowa caucuses fail to declare Democratic winner after major snafu with reporting results  —  Iowa Dems cited “inconsistencies in the reporting of three sets of results.”  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — For more than a year, the Democratic presidential contenders have been camping out in Iowa …
New York Times:
App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested  —  The state Democratic Party commissioned a new app to tabulate caucus results.  It did not appear to go as planned.  —  DES MOINES — The app that the Iowa Democratic Party commissioned to tabulate and report results …
Politico:
'It's a total meltdown': Confusion seizes Iowa as officials struggle to report results  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — A technical meltdown in Iowa Monday night set off bedlam in the critical first contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, triggering competing claims of victory and stoking doubts …
Discussion: Washington Post and New York Times
Wall Street Journal:
Iowa Caucus Results Delayed by Apparent App Issue  —  Shadow Inc. describes itself as a company that builds ‘affordable and easy-to-use tools’ for progressives  —  The mobile app that appears to have caused problems during the Iowa presidential caucuses was built by a small Washington …
Discussion: Raw Story, Redstate, Mother Jones and Vox
New York Times:
‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down  —  Unexplained “inconsistencies” in results, heated conference calls and firm denials of hacking left the contest in a strange state of almost suspended animation.  —  DES MOINES — Sean Bagniewski had seen the problems coming.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:   So far, there's only one loser in Iowa: The state's Democratic party
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
This Iowa Poll Was Never Published. It's Still Influencing What You Read.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Iowa Democratic vote-reporting meltdown hands opening to Trump
Discussion: The Capitolist and WHOTV
Axios:
The Iowa caucus ends in a meltdown
Discussion: The Hill and Associated Press
Quint Forgey / Politico:
Bernie and Buttigieg elbow each other with claims of leads in Iowa
Discussion: The Hill, Fox News and ABC News
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
R.I.P. the ‘First-In-the-Nation’ Iowa Caucuses (1972-2020)
New York Times:   The 1,600 Volunteers Who Were Supposed to Make the Iowa Caucuses Run Smoothly
John F. Harris / Politico:
The winner is ... no one  —  “Iowa,” a smiling Pete Buttigieg said …
Discussion: Breitbart
Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Technical glitches delay Iowa Democratic caucus results
Discussion: Slate
Daniel Arkin / NBC News:   Iowa caucuses turnout: Entrance poll shows dip in first-timers
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
‘It kind of failed us’: With eyes of the world on Iowa, another hiccup in American democracy
Discussion: Raw Story
Tobias Hoonhout / National Review:
Biden Campaign Demands Iowa Dems Explain ‘Acute Failures’ in Caucus Results Reporting
Discussion: Redstate, Instapundit and WHOTV
Zachary B. Wolf / CNN:   The Iowa caucuses just died forever
Hannah Fingerhut / Associated Press:
AP VoteCast: Iowa Democratic voters seek fundamental change
Discussion: KTLA
Sarah Blaskey / Miami Herald:
As others stand at attention for anthem, Trump fidgets, points, pretend-conducts the band  —  President Donald Trump has repeatedly said all Americans should “stand proudly” during the national anthem, and publicly chastises those who don't as disrespectful of the troops.
Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair:
“It's Payback Time”: With Acquittal Certain, Trump Plots Revenge on Bolton, Impeachment Enemies  —  Trump, says a source, wants Bolton to be criminally investigated for possibly mishandling classified information.  Romney, Schiff, and Nadler are also...  BY - GABRIEL SHERMAN  —  Person of Interest
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Powerful Trump supporters urge donors to shun John Bolton's super PAC after bombshell book revelations
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
‘An unacceptable and upsetting environment’: 2020 Democratic Host Committee under investigation  —  The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.
David Matthews / New York Daily News:
Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars’  —  Years before conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh announced on his show Monday that he'd been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, he downplayed the health risks of smoking on his show.
Discussion: NB Blog
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The Iowa Standard:
Secretary of State Pate says Judicial Watch's claims about Iowa voter rolls are false  —  A Washington D.C.-based organization made false claims today in a news release regarding voter registration information in eight Iowa counties.  Judicial Watch claims that total registration numbers …
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Washington Post:
Conservatives spread false claims on Twitter about electoral fraud as Iowans prepare to caucus
Tom Piatak / Chronicles Magazine:
an arrogance justified by nothing  —  It was a revealing moment.  Former GOP consultant turned Never Trumper Rick Wilson began ridiculing Trump supporters on CNN as “credulous Boomer rube[s]” who believe “Donald Trump is the smart one and y'all elitists are dumb.”
Discussion: Instapundit
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Bloomberg says he hopes Sanders changes  —  Mike Bloomberg tells me he'd support Bernie Sanders over Donald Trump if those were his two options, but that people should understand Sanders at this moment is “so far to the left it's not practical” and that “what he wants to do would never get through Congress.”
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
 
 
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Joe Biden kisses granddaughter on lips during Iowa rally
Discussion: PJ Media Home
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
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