by wj
It's well after midnight in Iowa (and getting late here on the West Coast) and the results, even preliminary results, still aren't in from the Iowa caucuses**. In fact, they're saying it may be "late Tuesday" before we know anything. Not only after the Tuesday morning papers have got to press, but probably too late for the afternoon papers as well. The only thing we seem to know for sure is that the app for reporting results had issues.
But we've had victory speeches from most of the candidates -- which got played on the networks because, simply put, there was no real news to play. Once the results do come out, it seems likely that all the campaigns will be spinning the results like mad. From what I can see at the moment, the Biden campaign is acting like they think they under-performed. Not that this will stop them spinning, even if (or especially if) they did. And even those who did well are likely to be over-hyping their success in the hopes of getting some kind of "bounce" going forward.
So, what to make of the results, once they appear? In short, Open Thread
** That's the Democratic caucuses. To nobody's surprise, Trump won the Republican caucuses. With maybe 3% of Republicans having the courage to vote for someone else in public.
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