>> We're in the closing hours of one of the worst weeks of democratic political news I
can remember.
Iowa started off the week, and then was there the whole week, just one series of messes
after another.
And maybe you were like me and you've been wondering, so what comes out of this?
We were speculating as it was happening on Monday.
How this might affect the eventual winners, the eventual losers.
You wanna have a clean win in Iowa and obviously no one has been able to get that.
And so I have been trying to go and look, what's the actual data?
What are people actually think coming out of this?
And so one thing that I think is important is, when you ask Democratic primary voters,
who are you more or less likely to vote for as a result of what you've witnessed.
And when you look at that, I know there's a lot here but, at the top Bernie Sanders,
got the most much more likely and also a lot of somewhat more likely as well.
Biden, even though he did horrendously People are pretty interested in them, and then it
goes down from there, where Tom Steyer, actually at the bottom there it's Klobuchar, Steyer,
and Gabbard feeling the worst effect coming out of this.
You have Pete Buttigieg who might have won, or gotten second-
>> Wow.
>> He's right there in the middle.
It does not seem to have boosted him in general, maybe in New Hampshire, and some of the polls
look pretty good for him in the last few days there, but nationally, Bernie Sanders and
Biden, despite one winning and one coming in fourth, they are getting the most momentum
coming out of this.
>> So that's a poll for people who weren't paying attention?
>> Apparently, it seems like it.
>> What your perception of the Iowa Caucus is, is that it?
>> No, it's not who you think isn't a winner anything.
It's like you've seen all this now what do you think about these candidates?
Has this made you more or less like.
>> Whether or there.
>> Or are you going to support them?
>> Support them.
>> Okay.
>> And another thing too is in terms of not paying attention, like there are plenty of
people who are gonna end up voting in the Democratic primary that we're not paying much
attention toIowa.
>> Right?
Right, that's a good point.
>> Do you think that the results in Iowa matter to the people that it should matter to?
>> I don't know, that's what I've been trying to discover.
>> Well, I think the results in Iowa or what happened in Iowa, because look, the whole
point of Iowa, the only thing that's super relevant about Iowa is that it kicks off the
primaries.
Right.
And so the news coverage that the winner receives can really help them with momentum.
>> The funding and money.
>> And so what, this little game that Buttigieg played, and this little stunt that he unfortunately
pulled off, according to some polling in New Hampshire, I think Monmouth is one of the
polls, shows an 8% rise in his performance, I guess, like more people are willing to consider
him in New Hampshire.
>> Okay.
>> Now, the front runner in New Hampshire continues to be Bernie Sanders, but because
of the way the media covered Iowa and the way that they kind of carried Buttigieg's
declaration that he won Unfortunately helped him.
>> Yes.
>> And it's ridiculous because, as we know, there were all sorts of problems and inconsistencies.
And at this point, he's not the winner, he's not the clear winner because everything's
been inaccurate, there's been all sorts of issues.
So for him to claim that he's the winner is ridiculous.
But anyway, put that aside, the way the media helped him Is the real issue because he experienced
that rise in the polls in New Hampshire.
>> I don't know how much they actually helped him.
I mean, if nothing bad happened, if it had just been the way it should have been, it's
likely that Bernie would have won, Buttigieg would have gotten second.
And he would have seen a bit of a rise in the polls.
So we can look at and again, nationally it doesn't seem to be helping and much at least
yet.
In New Hampshire it has helped them but it might have helped him anyway if there hadn't
been any of this.
We've known for six weeks now that he was going to finish very well in Iowa.
He's spent, millions upon millions of dollars.
He's been polling very well there for a couple of months.
>> Talked about the shape of our democracy while he was there.
>> He did and I want Democracy is vague, but what's its shape?
I want candidates to talk about that.
>> I agree.
>> Paralellogram?
>> Is it a verb?
>> Not since The Music Man was written has there been so much damage inflicted on Iowa.
This is.
This is horrible.
>> Yeah.
>> And I hope that there is some sorts of intervention to help Iowans through this post
caucus stress disorder, thing they've had.
Because everyone in Iowa is got to be embarrased.
>> They should be.
>> You know.
>> They absolutely should be.
>> Because.
>> The Iowa democratic party should be embarrassed Tom.
>> Yeah.
>> Tom Perez, the head of DNC should absolutely step down.
>> Absolutely >> What's happening right now is even if you
aren't invested in a particular candidate.
Again, the damage that this done >> That's right it's
>> In people's trust in the process is yeah >> And Trump was on record today, saying,
I don't know what's happening over there and all it does is Feed, it's a drug for the susceptible
to this.
You know what I'm talking about.
Folks who are just so into this conspiratorial notion that it's all fake and that votes are
fake and I think the damage is just done.
>> I do worry that if you're in a future caucus site, your odds of going like it's got to
have heard that at least a little bit.
Like the idea that you could potentially be stuck there like going to a caucus is a long
process, no matter what But if this is what you believe could happen, then obviously,
it's different state parties and all that.
They're not gonna be using the app in Nevada, but I could see some people being driven away
from the process because of it.
That was certainly the goal of Republicans coming out of it, all of them.
Trump and his sons and Republican officials were trying in every one of their social media
posts, to try to get Democratic voters to check out of the system because they want
turn out to be low.
They want some unqualified candidate to make it through.
They want to be able to win in November and so they were working towards that.
>> I'm amazed that look, we have an app where you can touch a button and like a big map
will show up at your house.
>> Yeah, yeah.
I love those apps, those are the best apps.
>> Or a car will come to you and take you somewhere.
And you can actually see the car coming towards you.
>> Yeah.
>> They couldn't have an app that counted stuff.
>> Not when Bernie Sanders is the front runner.
>> Like a calculator, like a fancy calculator.
You know what?
>> That's all it is.
They blew it.
>> Like a WiFi enabled TI 89 could have gotten the job done.
You could play Doom on those.
>> Did you just referenced Texas Instruments?
>> I remember those days
>> That was terrible god, like a hundred dollar calculator my immigrant parents like what
it is What to do who would like this math class?
>> And you only used like ten buttons on the lower right.
>> Yeah, yeah.
>> I don't know what any of those did.
>> Totally.
>> But it spelled hell upside down, and that was cool.
>> It did.
>> Among other things.
>> Yes.
>> I'm not gonna spoil it, but play around a little bit, with the keyboard people.