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

One reason for the nationalization of politics that Julia mentioned — and I also can’t recommend Dan Hopkins’ book enough (hi, Dan!) — is the ongoing decline of local media. The Des Moines Register, however, clearly benefits from national interest in the caucuses, and its job is made a little easier tonight by the fact that Des Moines-55 caucus is located in their lobby.

Seems like this year’s count is much slower than in years past. We don’t really have any results yet, which is kind of remarkable. In 2008 Obama was declared the winner by 9:30 p.m. Eastern. Could be a result of having multiple votes to keep track of.

Warren pulled ahead in the final alignment in the New York satellite location (a little ironic given that she was the only candidate in the room without a table set up). The vast majority of her supporters tonight were women, particularly young women. Sanders also did well here. Earlier today, he won at the Brooklyn satellite site (though there were far fewer people in attendance).

The first alignment was Warren (28 supporters), Sanders (22), Klobuchar (3), Buttigieg (3), Biden (0) and Yang (0). Since eight was the viability number, only Warren and Sanders moved ahead. In the end, Warren got 4 delegates (with 33 caucusgoers) and Sanders got two (with 23 caucusgoers).