'The people who expected to come out of Iowa on a speeding freight train are still waiting for the train to leave the station,' veteran Democratic strategist tells Newsweek.
After Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses melted down earlier this week, all eyes are on the New Hampshire primary to give some clarity to the crowded and chaotic Democratic presidential race.
"The people who expected to come out of Iowa on a speeding freight train are still waiting for the train to leave the station," Joe Trippi, a veteran Democratic strategist, toldBy midafternoon Wednesday, Iowa had still not declared an official winner in Monday's caucuses. But with 75 percent of precincts reporting, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was leading the field with 26.9 percent of the state delegate equivalents.
Even when the final Iowa results are released, they may not hold as much weight because of the voting process trouble. While party officials said the results will be accurate, the problem-plagued caucuses are likely to add to increasing public doubts about the integrity of the nation's election process.
Andrew Smith, a pollster and political scientist at the University of New Hampshire, agreed that the results of next week's primary will be big for the Democratic contest because of the chaos in Iowa."There's no press coverage of who won and who lost. The press coverage is how it got so screwed up." An Emerson College survey released Tuesday found Sanders leading the pack, with 32 percent support among Democratic voters in New Hampshire. The senator had a nearly 20-point lead over his next closest rivals, Biden and Warren, who each had 13 percent support.
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