At this point, I take back the part you highlighted: We’re still not the ‘party of stupid’, just currently the ‘party of well-intentioned oops’.

Yes, a new app failed, however they did have a back up plan — phone it in the same way they’d been doing since forever. The problem is that those phone numbers were flooded with out of state calls. Possibly non-coincidentally, those numbers were repeatedly published on right-wing forums, along with comments like “Let’s f — k them up!”.

So not the party of stupid, just not the party not understanding the depth of dirty tricks the R’s are willing to sink to.

As someone potentially on the other side of the D/R divide, how do you think the Ds had ought to respond? Continue to try to fight fair — or not? At a minimum then need to start allowing for dirty pool coming from the other side. For instance, setting those numbers up as in-state-only 800 numbers would have shielded the Iowa D party from outside-Iowa calls.

As a side note, behavior like this from the Rs does not bode at all well for more than half the country accepting a Trump win — if he does.