{"id":6376,"date":"2020-02-04T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2020-02-04T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T12:17:51","slug":"iowagate-why-were-the-iowa-caucus-results-really-delayed-unprecedented-quality-control-ruse-means-the-fix-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6376","title":{"rendered":"IOWAgate: Why were the Iowa caucus results really delayed? Unprecedented &#8216;quality control&#8217; ruse means the fix is in!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Social Media Cries Foul over Delayed Iowa Caucus Results Attributed to \u2018Quality Control\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by HANNAH BLEAU<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Individuals on both sides of the political aisle are crying foul over the\u00a0Iowa State Democratic Party attributing the delay in results to \u201cquality control,\u201d sparking further suspicion of what some Democrats fear is a rigged election.<\/p>\n<p>The Iowa State Democratic Party on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/03\/iowa-caucus-delayed-quality-control\/\">attributed<\/a>\u00a0the delay in the Iowa caucus results to \u201cquality control,\u201d claiming it was doing so \u201cout of an abundance of caution.\u201d The party did not provide an ETA on the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe asked for more specifics than that. We don\u2019t know exactly what the quality control is but as we said. This is the first time in the history of Iowa caucuses\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 they\u2019ve been doing this for half a century \u2014 that they are tabulating three different numbers here,\u201d NBC News correspondent Steve Kornacki said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKornacki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SteveKornacki<\/a> reports that Iowa State Democratic Party says it is doing &quot;quality control&quot; on results &quot;out of an abundance of caution.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IowaCaucuses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IowaCaucuses<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GHwIi4BSj4\">pic.twitter.com\/GHwIi4BSj4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1224529291309998081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s explanation, however, is furthering suspicion among people across the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat the heck is \u2018quality control?&#8217;\u201d former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What the heck is \u201cquality control?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidaxelrod\/status\/1224532568256720896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does this mean? Are they rigging the primary (again)?\u201d the Tea Party Patriots\u2019 official Twitter account asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The Democratic Party of Iowa has REFUSED to publish any results from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IowaCaucuses?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IowaCaucuses<\/a> until they complete a process they&#39;re calling \u201cquality control.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Are they rigging the primary (again)?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tea Party Patriots (@TPPatriots) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPPatriots\/status\/1224540159573725186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Continues reading the social media outburst at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/03\/social-media-cries-foul-over-delayed-iowa-caucus-results-attributed-to-quality-control\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/02\/03\/social-media-cries-foul-over-delayed-iowa-caucus-results-attributed-to-quality-control\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media Cries Foul over Delayed Iowa Caucus Results Attributed to \u2018Quality Control\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}