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2020 Dems: Iowa (how it works and what to look for)


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Re the sometimes-nebulousness of "HIspanic." My aunt is married to a dude who was born and raised in Zurich and raised Swiss German. 

His mother is Afro-Nicaraguan (I'd need that chart Bolivar posted to place her exactly) and his dad was French. Afro-Nicaraguan mama somehow pawned him off on the parents of her next boyfriend, and that was how this French / Afro-Nicaraguan dude became Swiss German, with a German last name.

So he marries my cracka-ass-cracka aunt in Houston and their daughter looks and is raised and talks cracka-ass-cracka as they come. (Her grandmother was very light-skinned.) I have her 23andMe 'cause we're cousins: she is 4 percent Sub-Saharan African and about 1/3 total composite mestizo (that's the total of her Iberian and Amerindian genes.)

She grew up in the West U area and went to St. Agnes. All her school friends were white. She looks white, talks white, has a white name, a Swiss dad, and an Anglo mom.

But when college-application time came, her mom checked Hispanic on all the forms in order to outkick her coverage. Yes, it is technically correct -- by blood, my cousin is one-quarter Hispanic, but in the real world, she's about as Hispanic as Taylor Swift. (My other aunts grumbled about their sister checking that box -- they said if she was going to do that, she should have been forced to throw a quinceanera at the very least.) 

Yes, at least Ted was raised by a Cuban father, but his upbringing was in virtually the same lillywhite culture my cousin grew up in, so calling him Hispanic is meaningless, a mere technicality.

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2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Re the sometimes-nebulousness of "HIspanic." My aunt is married to a dude who was born and raised in Zurich and raised Swiss German. 

His mother is Afro-Nicaraguan (I'd need that chart Bolivar posted to place her exactly) and his dad was French. Afro-Nicaraguan mama somehow pawned him off on the parents of her next boyfriend, and that was how this French / Afro-Nicaraguan dude became Swiss German, with a German last name.

So he marries my cracka-ass-cracka aunt in Houston and their daughter looks and is raised and talks cracka-ass-cracka as they come. (Her grandmother was very light-skinned.) I have her 23andMe 'cause we're cousins: she is 4 percent Sub-Saharan African and about 1/3 total composite mestizo (that's the total of her Iberian and Amerindian genes.)

She grew up in the West U area and went to St. Agnes. All her school friends were white. She looks white, talks white, has a white name, a Swiss dad, and an Anglo mom.

But when college-application time came, her mom checked Hispanic on all the forms in order to outkick her coverage. Yes, it is technically correct -- by blood, my cousin is one-quarter Hispanic, but in the real world, she's about as Hispanic as Taylor Swift. (My other aunts grumbled about their sister checking that box -- they said if she was going to do that, she should have been forced to throw a quinceanera at the very least.) 

Yes, at least Ted was raised by a Cuban father, but his upbringing was in virtually the same lillywhite culture my cousin grew up in, so calling him Hispanic is meaningless, a mere technicality.

President Obama was raised by white grandparents in Hawaii before going to Columbia and Harvard. Are we going to say he's only African by technicality?

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1 minute ago, Alvin89 said:

President Obama was raised by white grandparents in Hawaii before going to Columbia and Harvard. Are we going to say he's only African by technicality?

No, because white people in America absolutely treated him like a black man.  Honestly man, this shit isn't that difficult.

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2 minutes ago, Alvin89 said:

President Obama was raised by white grandparents in Hawaii before going to Columbia and Harvard. Are we going to say he's only African by technicality?

“I think if you look African-American in this society, you’re treated as an African-American.” -- Barack Obama, when asked when he "decided to be black."

My cousin does not look Hispanic. Neither does Ted Cruz. Her friends were not overwhelmingly Hispanic and neither were his. He was also raised Protestant, so he didn't even have the stereotypical Catholicism of the majority of Hispanics. 

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3 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

“I think if you look African-American in this society, you’re treated as an African-American.” -- Barack Obama, when asked when he "decided to be black."

My cousin does not look Hispanic. Neither does Ted Cruz. Her friends were not overwhelmingly Hispanic and neither were his. He was also raised Protestant, so he didn't even have the stereotypical Catholicism of the majority of Hispanics. 

The man was elected President of the United States of America and just bought a house for over $11 million dollars in Martha's Vineyard. I would love to be treated that badly.

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22 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Re the sometimes-nebulousness of "HIspanic." My aunt is married to a dude who was born and raised in Zurich and raised Swiss German. 

His mother is Afro-Nicaraguan (I'd need that chart Bolivar posted to place her exactly) and his dad was French. Afro-Nicaraguan mama somehow pawned him off on the parents of her next boyfriend, and that was how this French / Afro-Nicaraguan dude became Swiss German, with a German last name.

So he marries my cracka-ass-cracka aunt in Houston and their daughter looks and is raised and talks cracka-ass-cracka as they come. (Her grandmother was very light-skinned.) I have her 23andMe 'cause we're cousins: she is 4 percent Sub-Saharan African and about 1/3 total composite mestizo (that's the total of her Iberian and Amerindian genes.)

She grew up in the West U area and went to St. Agnes. All her school friends were white. She looks white, talks white, has a white name, a Swiss dad, and an Anglo mom.

But when college-application time came, her mom checked Hispanic on all the forms in order to outkick her coverage. Yes, it is technically correct -- by blood, my cousin is one-quarter Hispanic, but in the real world, she's about as Hispanic as Taylor Swift. (My other aunts grumbled about their sister checking that box -- they said if she was going to do that, she should have been forced to throw a quinceanera at the very least.) 

Yes, at least Ted was raised by a Cuban father, but his upbringing was in virtually the same lillywhite culture my cousin grew up in, so calling him Hispanic is meaningless, a mere technicality.

This is getting really off topic. You should really start new thread where you can tell my young daughter that she isn’t Hispanic because she has fair skin, my French last name, and we have a well to do lifestyle. 

let her know it doesn’t matter that her mother was a Cuban Refugee and came to the US as a teenage without knowing word of English.  
 

wonder when I should break the news to my wife.  And if I will survive the discussion. 

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6 minutes ago, Alvin89 said:

The man was elected President of the United States of America and just bought a house for over $11 million dollars in Martha's Vineyard. I would love to be treated that badly.

Oh, I LOVE this one.  Hey guys, a member of a race ended up doing okay for himself, so they can no longer talk about being treated badly!  It's over!!  RACISM IS OVER!!!

Ummm, can you send that memo to white folks, who haven't shut up since Obama was elected about how white people are the REAL persecuted people in America?  Because, ummm, I'm pretty sure that there's, like, a whole BUNCH of white people with expensive houses in Martha's Vineyard.

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More than half of whites — 55 percent — surveyed say that, generally speaking, they believe there is discrimination against white people in America today.

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1 minute ago, Xian said:

This is getting really off topic. You should really start new thread where you can tell my young daughter that she isn’t Hispanic because she has fair skin, my French last name, and we have a well to do lifestyle. 

let her know it doesn’t matter that her mother was a Cuban Refugee and came to the US as a teenage without knowing word of English.  
 

wonder when I should break the news to my wife.  And if I will survive the meeting. 

Cuban refugee =/= Swiss dad who barely knew his Nicaraguan mom. 

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2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

I really am having trouble figuring out what your point is.

His point is that he's a very smart college freshman who is smarter than anyone else and has learned the secret nobody wants to admit that racism isn't real. 

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14 minutes ago, Xian said:

Yay.  Now we can get back on track.   Though I can’t read it due to paywall. 
 

so sanders will win every metric but the SDEs? What’s the projection for national delegates? 

I would guess something like Pete gets 12 delegates and Bernie gets 11....out of the ~4000 delegates that count on the first ballot.  Iowa is only important for the headline.  This year the headline was "Iowa fucked up".  

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6 minutes ago, Tuco said:

I would guess something like Pete gets 12 delegates and Bernie gets 11....out of the ~4000 delegates that count on the first ballot.  Iowa is only important for the headline.  This year the headline was "Iowa fucked up".  

Pretty much this.  Pete was victorious in that he wasn't expected to do that well.  And Biden is in trouble.  Everyone else stays the same.  On to New Hampshire!

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46 minutes ago, Longhornfan1024 said:

That and "we had a black president so racism doesn't exist in this country anymore" energy.  

 

21 minutes ago, Alvin89 said:

The man was elected President of the United States of America and just bought a house for over $11 million dollars in Martha's Vineyard. I would love to be treated that badly.

Is it possible for someone to rep themselves?  Asking for a friend.  

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14 minutes ago, Tuco said:

I would guess something like Pete gets 12 delegates and Bernie gets 11....out of the ~4000 delegates that count on the first ballot.  Iowa is only important for the headline.  This year the headline was "Iowa fucked up".  

The chyrons on mass media show Pete ahead. he's getting millions and millions in free advertising right now for winning a race he hasn't been proven to win.

Look at this:

This is just misleading. No one knows what "SDEs" are. It doesn't even have the estimated delegate count which shows Pete & Bernie tied at 10. It's just presented in the way that people are used to seeing vote counts.

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Just now, GSU&UT said:

I assume we'd get a lot of vote totals reported on that day though right? Delegate counting is I think not just by popular vote in both states, correct me if that isn't the case.

California will take forever 

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The French under Nappy III invented the idea of "Latin" America. Wanted to cut ze Rosbifs out of influence.

Nixon invented "Hispanic".

Some Crackx who missed the first three weeks of Spanish class invented "Latinx."

We'd be better off going back to the casta paintings. Wuzzup my Tenteenaire.

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Just now, Js1 said:

California will take forever 

Yes, in totality, but I assume people who already voted or vote on that day whose votes have been received, at least some of that data will be reported after polls close? Did that not happen in 2016?

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1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Just a reminder that the SDEs are what’s always been used to determine the “winner” of the Iowa caucuses.

That's because that was the only data point they would give us.

At least in the Electoral College we get the # of electors. SDEs are even more obscure than that.

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7 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

The French under Nappy III invented the idea of "Latin" America. Wanted to cut ze Rosbifs out of influence.

Nixon invented "Hispanic".

Some Crackx who missed the first three weeks of Spanish class invented "Latinx."

We'd be better off going back to the casta paintings. Wuzzup my Tenteenaire.

My in laws invented referring to me as "the chalupa" behind my back.

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2 minutes ago, henrygandorf said:

we want more data points we can bitch about on twitter!

Or so we can get a more accurate idea about the will of the people.

2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

But the SDEs are what matter the most according to the Iowa Caucus rules. 

Not saying you're wrong, but what does that mean?

It's a stupid system, we all agree with that. I'm not saying that the media is lying about Pete winning in SDEs. I'm just saying that when people see that WaPo graphic they assume it means a vote total because that's what it means 99.9999% of the time we see election data. Therefore, it is misleading.

What matters practically is which delegates go to the national convention, currently tied at 10.

The popular vote counts and the SDE% are all perceptions management.

2 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

Pete people won’t sit out. 

14% said they won't according to the poll previously cited, against 16% of Bernie's.

It's going to be Bernie's job to win them if Bernie wins the nomination. It's going to be Pete's job to win them if Pete wins the nomination. Whatever.

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54 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

The chyrons on mass media show Pete ahead. he's getting millions and millions in free advertising right now for winning a race he hasn't been proven to win.

Look at this:

This is just misleading. No one knows what "SDEs" are. It doesn't even have the estimated delegate count which shows Pete & Bernie tied at 10. It's just presented in the way that people are used to seeing vote counts.

Sure, he's getting some play out of it.  But it's not the headline. It wasn't the night of.  It is something people look at after the read about the State of the Union and Impeachment.  The delegate count is trivial.  There is still value in winning Iowa, but clearly Iowa's fuck up is suppressing that value.  And as a Bernie supporter, I would think you'd be cool with Pete getting the play.  He doesn't have the broad support to win the nomination as a whole, and moderate voters may split their vote with Biden.  And nobody has said "Warren" since Monday.  

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