By Aly Kamadia, Editor-In-Chief of iDose

What the hell happened in Iowa?!

It’s almost midnight (Tuesday night), and the results from Monday are still not completely in!!  That might change by the time you read this.

But iDose goes to press soon, so I’ll have to make this comment rather quick. Before I do, here are the results at the moment:

62% of precincts reporting (as of 10:30pm Tuesday night)

27% Pete Buttigieg

25% Bernie Sanders

18% Elizabeth Warren

16% Joe Biden

Joe Biden got destroyed in the first state where America began voting to select a Democratic candidate. (That candidate ultimately goes up to face President Trump in the November 2020 election.)

I say ‘destroyed’ because the polling indicated a tight competition for first place between a surging Bernie Sanders and frontrunner-Joe (well, ‘frontrunner’ according to polling). And finishing fourth is certainly not a good sign for him.

But Biden also got extremely lucky too.

For those who don’t know, in terms of numbers (i.e. that decide who will win the Democratic primary), Iowa is almost meaningless in the big picture. Though it is extremely significant in the sense that it can give a candidate momentum moving forward.

In other words, if the Democratic Party in Iowa knew how to count, the entire results would have been reported on Monday night. Biden would have then been flooded by MANY MORE gloomy headlines and cable news gossip about losing so badly.

He is incredibly lucky for being spared from that. At least for the time being, because things don’t look good for him.

ps. Next primary is in New Hampshire on Tuesday Feb. 11th

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