{"id":11538,"date":"2016-02-02T16:47:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2016-02-02T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T00:46:32","slug":"what-the-hell-just-happened-in-iowa-bradcast-222016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11538","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell Just Happened in Iowa?!: ‘BradCast’ 2\/2\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was like 2012<\/a> all over again. But the apparent<\/i> mess was on the D side instead of the R side. So, as you might have guessed, we’ve got a very big show today on The BradCast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are joined today by Iowa Caucus expert (yes, there is such a thing!) Professor David P. Redlawsk<\/b> of Rutger’s Eagleton Institute of Politics<\/a> to help us unpack what the hell happened last night (and this morning) now that the first votes have been cast in the 2016 race in the Hawkeye State.<\/p>\n

We cover the reported winners and losers, along with explanations for some of the bizarre math<\/a>, “missing”<\/a> precinct results, coin tosses<\/a>, concerns about fraud<\/a> and much more<\/a>, as the Democratic candidates battled to a virtual tie with Clinton finally declared<\/a> the “winner” and Sanders’ supporters asking lots of (good) questions in the bargain.<\/p>\n

Redlawsk, an Iowa native and experienced Caucus Chair himself, as well as author of Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process<\/i><\/a>, explains the history and sometimes impossibly arcane procedures used by the parties at their caucuses in Iowa, which resulted<\/a> in a big win for Ted Cruz and, at least as AP and the state Democratic Party<\/a> are now reporting, a razor-thin margin of victory for Clinton.<\/p>\n

He also speaks to many of the concerns about those results which emerged last night and still today.<\/p>\n

“The fact is that because the Democrats do this is in the form of ‘stand up and be counted publicly’, it’s always more chaotic than if they were casting a secret ballot, for example,” says Redlawsk, in response to queries about some of the videos revealing questionable behavior by some party officials and Clinton precinct captains. Though he also cites the Republican caucus where he observed the hand-counting as “a little chaotic” itself.<\/p>\n

So, are Sanders supporters right to be concerned about the legitimacy of the process and the counting? We try to make sense of it all today, even as new information (and concerns) are expected to come to light in the days ahead as we barrel towards the New Hampshire primary next week. Redlawsk is exceedingly helpful and clarifying on all of the above. I’d call it a “must-listen” episode if I weren’t so extraordinarily modest.<\/p>\n

Then, as if today’s show is not already big enough, we’re joined by Desi Doyen with the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a> as the cherry on top of today’s BradCast<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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