So 4 years ago, we know that part of the democratic primary was rigged for Hilary. Amazingly, Donna Brazille, the CNN pundit who gave HRC debate questions ahead of time, actually wrote a book saying the DNC was in the tank of Hilary and how unfair it was.
Yet since then all we've really heard about is Russia and Trump.
Now it's time for another election and in the very first state, they can't even count the votes right. On Monday night, after it started to take forever for the votes to be counted, I started texting with LRC's programmer - Erik - who lives in Iowa. He had gone to the caucus to support Bernie and I wanted to know what was up with the delay.
What he wrote me got my attention real quick. After saying he could design a spreadsheet in 15 minutes that would have worked just fine, he wrote:
"They're just all shitting their pants about what they're gonna say when Bernie wins after they tried to fuck him over every day for 6 months."
That got me interested real quick as I love conspiracy theories. Rather than think "this is just incompetence" I began to wonder, "Was this done intentionally?"
Then the next few days when the votes start to come out. Bernie was doing well but he was always just behind Buttieg. However, just now at lunch, I went to real clear politics and was stunned to see that Bernie actually won by a lot. How did he pull ahead by so much?
That made me think Erik was on to something.
So did party insiders, who of course don't want a radical like Bernie any more than the GOP insiders wanted Trump, design this app so they could have it fail and no one would realize Bernie kicked ass until days later? Or was it just a coincidence?