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

One problem at the end of the New York satellite caucus became getting delegate volunteers. Typically, caucusgoers volunteer to be delegates at the party’s county convention and support their candidate. But a lot of the people here are students and can’t just go to Iowa, so there was some difficulty in getting delegate volunteers. The caucus chair said it wasn’t clear if there was going to be a different protocol for satellite sites.

Also, it turns out the caucus chair found out she was likely going to facilitate the caucus yesterday. On top of the start time and location changes, it seems there were quite a number of last-minute decisions made for some of these satellite sites.

There was polite clapping for the representatives of Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Biden. But the applause and cheering for the Sanders volunteer was DEAFENING. He sounded almost preacherly, calling on the cheering crowd to come together for Sanders’s revolution.

The caucus still seems pretty tilted toward Clinton 2016 voters (55 percent voted for her, compared to 30 percent who went for Sanders). Among the Clinton 2016 group, Biden, Buttigieg and Warren are all doing better, while Sanders is getting the majority of the Sanders 2016 caucusgoers — so far, more than preelection polls seemed to indicate. Among those who supported neither in 2016, Buttigieg is doing well.