This is the first time I have ever attended a caucus and it turns out it may be the last. My friend Liz and I decided to participate this year and were both undecided on our candidates when we arrived at our caucus location. I liked Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. Elizabeth Warren's free tuition plan turned me off and Pete Buttigieg had basically no experience so I decided to caucus for Klobuchar. I left the caucus feeling good about participating but when I arrived home Scott had been watching network news and said, "something is majorly wrong." The networks were all reporting that caucus results were not coming in from Iowa and this eventually turned into a huge mess. The app that the Iowa Democratic party decided to use this year wasn't working and precincts were unable to report results. This made Iowa, Democrats, and the caucus process look bad. Network news talked about this mess for an entire week and everyone was calling for an end to the first in the nation Iowa Caucuses. We'll see what becomes of the process in the future.
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