What Did — And Didn’t — Go Down In The Iowa Caucuses

Laura, why do you say that people appear to be taking Buttigieg’s lead for granted any more than they would have last night?

With that said — there’s a somewhat separate question of what I think the media will emphasize in the real world, and what I think they should be emphasizing. If everyone treats Buttigieg as the winner, then maybe he gets the bounce, to the extent there is one.

Yeah, but who the hell cares about that, Micah? State delegate equivalents are dumb and there’s no need to use them, they bias the count toward rural areas, and they don’t really have any analogy in any other state (except Nevada).