Since late last night/early this morning — what is time, really? — the Buttigieg and Sanders campaigns have both released internal data showing their candidates doing well. Buttigieg’s campaign claimed to have data from roughly 75 percent of precincts, while Sanders’s campaign had data from “trained Sanders volunteers at representative precincts” across Iowa. On the one hand, their strong showings do line up to some extent with entrance poll data that suggested they were neck-and-neck when it came to initial preferences among caucusgoers. On the other hand, it’s not official data, and the campaigns obviously have an interest in selling what makes them look best. So be careful with this info.
