What Did — And Didn’t — Go Down In The Iowa Caucuses

If people are sneaking in wine, now I want to know if you can bring knitting needles into the Iowa caucuses.

Andrew Yang stopped by Oskaloosa today, where he is the only candidate with a field office. It’s possible that he ends up viable there and Biden doesn’t — even if there’s no “Yang surge” in the offing tonight, his investment in Iowa could still make an impact on the race.

We’re now moving into the part of the evening everyone is excited about — the presidential caucus. The precinct chair is outlining the steps: First, they need to figure out how many people are in the room. Then, they use that number to figure out what the viability thresholds are. And then the caucusgoers will go through the first and second alignments. Note that at several points, the volunteers running the caucus will have to accurately count the 800+ people in this room.