Going off of turnout when the only contest that has happened so far is a caucus that literally hinders turnout is...problematic. Especially seeing as the whole concept of turnout in the Iowa caucuses has not been accurately tracked historically.

I thought the point of the impeachment was to convict Trump.

I don’t know where the son of Ted DiBiase would ever get the idea that being famous and moneyed was the kind of thing that earned you privileges not afforded to regular folks.

Outside of Sanders supporters, have you seen anybody suggest that the results were anything but accurate?

I have Prime and didn’t even realize this was a thing. I feel like if this were on Netflix, I would be bombarded by prompts to watch it, but this is the first I’ve seen of it.

That’s a bad take.

But you have to understand the reason for the delays (aside from stupid app). Iowa Democrats, in an attempt to respond to criticism of the process’s historic lack of transparency, decided to provide all of the data that normally doesn’t get tracked and reported at all.

Use the buttons under the graph. 

The Iowa vote doesn’t seem illegitimate. It seems to reveal how terrible the caucus system is, but the vote count itself seems on the level, if incredibly poorly executed. Every cycle it seems that we have to be reminded why this is a bad system—it’s just that it’s a bad system that benefited Sanders last time but not…

In that particular case, the “trial” was done in the senate, which is the only one of the two chambers that is granted any constitutional authority in terms of trials. So again, even applying that example to this scenario and then taking it to its logical conclusion, the logical conclusion is....the House must rely on…

Look at the second graph in the link. The one that adjusts for the quality of the polling institution. The trend line of the aggregate for support crosses into the majority before settling again into a significant plurality.

Sentenced by whom? Tried by whom?

The president will say whatever he wants. And I honestly couldn’t care less about what He says or what self-proclaimed independents claim in a poll. If we are using polls, the polls say a majority of Americans (and all Americans get a say, theoretically) believe the president committed impeachable offenses and should…

You need a citation for the basic constitutional authority of the Justice Department (i.e., the executive branch) to decide whether to pursue and try criminal cases? Contempt of Congress is a criminal statute in federal law. The legislature does not try criminal cases. If you need a citation for that, look to the…

Sanders supporters are prone to narcissistic persecution complexes. Any outcome in which Sanders does not emerge from the primaries victorious will be painted by them and by Bots as evidence of illegitimacy. We have to resign ourselves to that inevitability.

In actuality, the Congress’s authority to arrest and jail individuals is commonly overblown. Yes, there is such a thing as “Capitol Police,” but they have no jurisdiction and cannot detain people without trial. And they don’t have the ability to perform a trial. That’s the purview of the other two branches.

That’s bad arithmetic. 

The vote today was legitimately the best plausible outcome we could have hoped for going in. Romney’s clearly looked at the Republican caucus, then looked at his own approval numbers in Utah, then looked back at the president and the caucus and said, “You know what, I don’t need any of you. Watch this. And then try to…

None of those people would have testified in the House under subpoena. There’s no reasonable guarantee that the courts would have even forced them to, and if they had, it would have taken months and months.

How’s this for symbolism? The House opens an impeachment inquiry into all those things you wish they’d opened an impeachment inquiry into. Articles of impeachment are drawn up, and they fail to even get enough Democratic support to pass and be sent to the senate. Because that’s what would have happened. A drawn out…