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

To your point, Sarah, maybe the Iowa Democrats were just lonely and love having conference calls?

Our friends at ABC News are reporting that the 2020 campaigns expect another call with the Iowa state party at 11 a.m. CT … so for all our East Coast readers, in about an hour and a half. Hoping we get some more information out of this call (also, pretty sure it’s like the fourth call from the state party).

But unfortunately we don’t yet have a better sense of when we might get results from Iowa. We are, however, turning the live blog back on so we can update you in real-time with new information as we learn more — the pace, though, won’t quite be what it was last night. We’re doing some more reporting on where things stand currently, and we plan to update as regularly as we can.

A quick summary of what we do know at this point:

• As editor-in-chief Nate Silver wrote earlier this morning, what happened in Iowa is unprecedented and could have ramifications for the whole nomination process.
• Additionally, there does appear to be have been a technical glitch in the app that precincts were using to record results — not a malicious cyber-attack — but enough inconsistencies that Iowa Democrats began running a “quality check” on results last night. In a statement earlier this morning they said, that the “the underlying data collected via the app was sound,” but it was only reporting partial results last night. The state party said they had fixed the issues, but that precinct level results were still being reported.

Stay with us folks, as we wait to learn more.