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

I think we can say this: The Sanders, Buttigieg and, to a lesser extent, Warren campaigns are acting confidently; the Biden campaign is not. That might suggest what they think the results are, but it may not mean anything real. Accept no substitutes for the actual results!

Jeff Zeleny is saying on CNN right now that the Iowa Democratic Party is saying they will not report results any time tonight — instead they will release results “sometime Tuesday.” However, the Sanders campaign says they will release the results it collected internally — although again, these would not be official numbers and should be taken with a grain of salt (like an internal poll, they might be overly favorable to the campaign releasing them).

I wonder whether what happened tonight will affect other states’ primary preparations. Obviously caucuses have certain specific issues, but the question of how technology interfaces with voting is bigger than just Iowa.