After Iowa, Americans Should Get Used to Slow Elections
Iowa Democratic Party chair Troy Price addresses reporters four days after the caucuses.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA There were many, many problems that led to the implosion of the Iowa Democratic Party’s caucuses and the fact that it may never be known who actually won more delegates last week. And while the Democratic campaigns long ago moved on…
Buttigieg Is Declared the Winner in Iowa, Showing How Much the State Has Changed
Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten wave to supporters at a caucus night campaign rally in Des Moines.Charlie Neibergall/AP It took nearly a week, but former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has been declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses’ state delegate count, narrowly beating Sen. Bernie Sanders, who, since nothing about the Iowa caucuses…
Clinton Gave Up On Rural America. Are the Democrats About To Do It Again?
Donald Trump on the campaign trail, 2016.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo President Donald Trump, speaking in Iowa last week, made a bold prediction about his prospects in the Hawkeye State this coming November: “We’re going to win the great state of Iowa, and it’s going to be a historic landslide,” he thundered. Trump may actually turn out…
Democrats Prove No One Has to Hack an Election to Create Chaos
The phone app used for the Iowa caucuses.TNS/via Zuma The traveling road show has moved on from Iowa, and the campaigns and most of the media circus that go with them have set up shop in New Hampshire. Still, the full results of the Iowa caucuses are not yet known. Numbers have been posted in…
Julián Castro Declares Iowa a “Complete Mess”
Charlie Neibergall/AP As the clock crept toward midnight in Iowa with no official results from the caucuses yet released, Elizabeth Warren’s campaign sent her most high-profile surrogate, Julián Castro—2020 presidential contender himself—to talk to reporters gathered at her event. Castro, Obama’s former secretary of housing and urban development, took the opportunity to hammer home one…
How Pete Buttigieg Found Support in Iowa’s Formerly Anti-LGBT Communities
Pete Buttigieg greets the crowd Hotel Winneshiek in Decorah, Iowa.Andrew Harnik/AP Pete Buttigieg doesn’t often remind people that he’s running a historic presidential campaign. The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has emphasized an easy-to-like persona: a nice–guy Midwesterner with middle of the road policies and a bit of Obama-style hope and change rhetoric.…