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Who Will Take The Fall For The Iowa Caucus?
The Night Ended With No Offical Data To Report. Somebody Needs To Take The Blame And Lose Their Job.
The 2020 Iowa Caucus was a debacle. Pretty much everyone agrees with the non-result of the night, even if the people who have the most to gain from knowing the real result can’t speak the full truth about their feelings.
A head should roll for this.
There are very few scenarios where I abdicate that a person gets fired for a mishap and lousy result. In most cases, a massive mia culpa is all you need. That act played correctly, can save the jobs of the execs who are the public face of the issue, even when the problems tend to be some random worker bee with no connection to the top that does some little something that ripples through the organization.
Iowa was facing pressure with its insistence that it holds a caucus, and it is the first contest to determine the President of the United States. The caucus process is complicated. The new rules to make the process more relevant and transparent made the counting and logging process even more complicated. The state itself has a population that is around 90% caucasian, and this round, it was picking a Democratic opponent for a party that is about 50% not-caucasian.
