Arick Wierson is an Emmy Award-winning television producer and former senior media adviser to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He currently advises political and corporate clients in the United States, Africa and Latin America. You can follow him on Twitter @ArickWierson. View more opinion at CNN.

(CNN) Here we go again. On Monday night more election drama unfolded as countless Americans tuned in to their favorite news channels to see who would come out ahead in the country's first political contest of the 2020 presidential elections. But viewers were sorely disappointed. The nationally televised debacle in Iowa was an unmitigated disaster for the Iowa Democratic Party, the entire reporting process for gathering and tallying precinct voting results appears to have been mired in widespread technical and operational breakdowns.

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It would be a mistake to assume that last night's fiasco will only reflect poorly on local Iowa state Democratic Party officials; the reality is that this breakdown, fairly or not, will confirm many voters' latent fears and deepest suspicions -- that Democrats may have their hearts in the right place, but their ideals often times get in the way of the nuts and bolts of running the government, or in this case, running an election.

Although the Democratic contenders were not the ones responsible for managing the election, those who were heavily staking their presidential aspirations on doing well in Iowa will invariably be caught up in the drama of an intramural party election that went off the rails and will be the ones most hurt by the delay in results.

But the night wasn't a disaster for all Democrats. In fact, it was a big night for Michael Bloomberg, the technocratic three-term mayor from New York City. Bloomberg, who decided to forego the Iowa contest, is running a self-financed campaign based on the central themes of competence and data -- two things that were sorely, visibly lacking in Iowa's Democratic firmament yesterday.

For the many party faithful who have been asking, "Why do we need Michael Bloomberg?" they now have their answer: Because competence matters.