At the time of this writing, the result of the Iowa caucuses is that the Democratic Party has seemingly mangled and entirely botched the situation. Its ineptitude has delayed results at least 12 hours beyond when they would normally be available, due to the apparent difficulty of counting. These same Democrats want the government, at their direction, to run just about everything.

Roughly 200,000 is a useful estimate of the number of people involved in the Iowa Democratic caucuses this year. If the Democratic Party can’t manage to count up that many votes, well then, I humbly suggest that we may not want to put it in charge of a multitrillion-dollar budget for 330 million people. Basic addition, after all, is one of those skills useful in the governance of a large enterprise such as the federal government.