Lawrence O’Donnell explains the history of the Iowa Caucuses and how they weren’t “originally invented to choose the president.” Aired on 02/03/20.
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Lawrence: Iowa Caucuses Weren't Originally Invented To Choose President | MSNBC
Iowa had one job and 4 years to prepare….and y’all blew it! 🤦♂️
Hillary did it
go with that. That is a good way to keep voters.
no, hillary blew it by screwing the local party over, they had no choice on the app issue
Democrats are freaking out because it’s Bernie, and we all know this caucus has been sabotaged. Prove the contrary to us, DNC, DCC, Iowa Democratic party top dogs. Prove it. Now we know why that “poll” wasn’t released Sunday night and why the honest results have been sabotaged. Paper, paper, paper. Apps are a way to abort any future fair, free election. We are woke!
Oh no date glitch,………. trust the DNC ??? Must be routing through the Hillary server.
omg they so did lol
The DNC did not create these stupid caucus instead of actual voting on ballots. Iowa did.
So let’s get to the meat and potatoes…Bernie has a landslide victory, and they don’t wanna tell us!
BINGO! not only that they don’t want to show biden in 5th place with 15 points under his polling
Treasured tradition – what a corporate Democrat says to keep special interests alive and well.
“Politics is the entertainment division of the industrial-military complex”. Frank Zappa, early ’80s.
This is insane. If people are concerned about foreign interference then all voting should be by paper.
Jaren C Well I guess when people are corrupt nothing’s safe.
E M. Exactly
…and voter ID!
I guess the DNC needed more time to fudge the numbers
des beinke is that why They stood on the world stage at the Helsinki conference and defended Putin after their 1000 member INTEL reported that Russia interfered in our elections? 🤔. Just asking.
@Toni sumblin Pencil Neck says Vlad and Trump hacked DNC Iowa,calls for immediate impeachment Vlad.
Whereas Republicans fudge theirs instantaneously.
Data manipulation taking place. Bernie must have won.
No Spam No manipulation. It’s the Russians again. LMAO. Maddow is good at covering that subject.
Bernie came in first. Biden came in *FIFTH!* No wonder they are blowing smoke.
The powers that be would love Bernie to go up against trump. He wont win😂😂😂
AMERICANS WILL NEVER VOTE IN A COMMUNIST
lol MSNBC trying to spin a narrative that Sanders can’t win.
Read: Manufacturing Consent
First we hear Iowa is an important state as it sets the tone…. now we hear well Iowa is not so important and that everyone is a winner…. lmao. Might as well watch Fox news at this point
@Boyd R. I agree with you; however, Sanders will struggle after New Hampshire as he won’t have as many die-hard supporters in states with high populated minority voters. Nonetheless, he still has some minority voters who like him, mostly younger minority voters. After super Tuesday, I believe Biden will pull away with it. The Blacks and Hispanics are not going to vote for Mayor Pete and I don’t need to say why. I like Elizabeth Warren but she blew it with when she started changing her mind about medicare for all and her big high tax plan of the rich. She knows most Americans, females and males, are still not ready for a woman to be president. I myself believe she is very qualified; howbeit, she ought to have kept her mouth closed about taxing the rich and vowed improving Affordable Care Act. I believe her campaign will be finished after South Carolina as it will be a horse race between Biden and Sanders, or Bloomberg and Sander as Bloomberg could pickup steam and get in the game if he can pickup the black voted.
Bloomberg has most of the black leadership bending towards him as he has been supporting many black mayors around the country. I think I can forgive him for what he did as NY Mayor when he implemented the Stop-and-Fisk policy that landed many young Black and Hispanic males in jail. Bottom line: from tonight’s showing in Iowa with the low turnout, prospects for Dems beating Trump looks bleak unless it is Biden as he promised a minority candidate on the ticket. I don’t think any other candidate will do that. I’m already preparing for four more miserable years of Trump. I know blacks won’t turnout if it is someone they don’t like on the ticket as the top four candidates continually talk about the working class voters, meaning the white working class. I’m engaged in my community, the black community, and they aren’t having any of that. They know we’re not getting anything out of the Democrats anyway, so why should they come out and vote.
Things will either get worse under Trump, or everything will stay as is. If there is a low turnout, the Dems could lose the house again, and we could be looking at a lot of damage to the country. The Republicans will try to change as many laws as they can within the two years they will have to work. They will definitely change the social programs because of the debt increase from the tax cuts in 2017. Ruth Ginsburg won’t last another two years as a Supreme Court Justice and there goes another seat for the Repubs. Clearance Thomas will probably retire during Trump’s second term so that he can selected another conservative judge, which they will replace him with a much younger judge to give them an advantage for the next 30 or 35 years. Hip hip hooray, Republicans! Everything seem to be turning out in your favor. You donors and supporters are getting richer; you’ll control congress, Supreme Court, White House and Justice Department. You can probably make Trump a King so his sons can reign after him. Can’t get any better than that. Trump gets what he wants.
Stealing it from Bernie again. Judicial Watch just exposed that Iowa and other states have more people on their voter rolls then people who are eligible to vote there.
@Jason Blade so you believe some sources are 100% false and others 100% true? What are your go to sources? MSNBC?
Mark Haddox sources that were not caught doctoring, editing or just plain lying about facts. Try it sometimes
@Jason Blade why can’t you answer a direct question with a direct answer? Name some sources that you believe are credible?
Mark Haddox I swear I replied earlier… anyway get off me I will not be convinced by the validity of Judicial Watch. It is a right wing propaganda outlet who wants to push a certain narrative.
You’re not going to steal this election from us!
TRUMP HAS WON ALREADY!
BREAKING NEWS DEMS ARE RIGGING RESULTS
How daaaaaaarrrrrrreeeeee you bring up facts to an MSLDS clip
same as it always was
jb – “THE FAUX ENTERTAINMENT TRUMP CULT LOVE PUTIN AND HIS RIGGING RESULTS.”
Lawrence Odonnel is a beast system brainwashing disinformant bloodsucker.
Corrupt as the day is long.
Don’t worry, they won’t be choosing the president. Thanks.
The DNC demanded a recount after Bernie won. In the mean time, they are exploring ways to redistribute Bernie’s votes in way that nobody can tell.
yes, the algorithm is hard at work corrupting it
But Bernie is all about redistributing 🤔
Gee, a — ing APP for voting was NOT a good idea? Summary: Dems are corrupt jacka — who either cannot handle a very simple process and like Obamacare, waste millions and still cannot run a simple website and/or are so corrupt, they are sabotaging their own primary.
Looks like a meeting of the Communist Workers Party!!!
So, is this a rigged election?
Why does these folks think Voter integrity matters to us voters?
Why would our Democrats change the procedures at the last minute?
This has a smell to me.
Time to move Iowa to the back of the line. Small state, primarily white. Makes no sense.
Were you thinking the same when Obama won it in 2008 ?
They must not have liked the results and need time to “fix” it
The U.S. is now a third world election country.
We need international monitors.