By A. Shaw
In Iowa, Bernie won 21 delegates and Hillary got 22.
Both Bernie and Hillary got a fraction just over 49% of the vote.
The bourgeois media calls the outcome of the Iowa caucuses a “virtual tie,” mainly because 21 delegates is almost the same thing as 22.
To win the DP nomination, a candidate must get 2,382 delegates.
Although the Iowa results are a virtual tie, the momentum of the Sanders and Clinton campaigns after the Feb. 1 caucuses is not a tie or a virtual tie.
Clinton has most of the momentum. This means that, for the moment, the Clinton campaign has more hope and is more disposed to work.
The Sanders campaign, happy with a virtual tie, is still hopeful and hardworking.
But Hillary’s cup is overflowing at the moment.
Iowa shows the importance of a mass movement that runs parallel to the campaign but retains its independence from the campaign and from a bourgeois party with which the campaign is affiliated. Both Cruz and Sanders have such mass movements. Cruz’ movement is better trained and more experienced that Sanders’ movement. The real name of the Cruz movement is Tea Party or Tea bag. But the bourgeois media want the Tea Bags to be referred to now as evangelical Christians.
Tea bags are viewed as reactionary crackpots.
The Tea Bag mass movement consolidated their independence from the GOP establishment in 2008 when they successfully ran Tea Bag candidates against establishment candidates.
The 2016 Iowa caucus is the first major operation by the Sanders’ mass movement.