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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Iowa Caucus Results; Biden Tanks -- 4:00 P.M. CT -- February 4, 2020

62% of "results" to be released momentarily.

Press conference beginning.

Seems to start with Q&A: Iowa Democrat party chair looks cynical. Leaves the stage abruptly. [Only question: when does he get fired?]

Only 62% will be released now. No word when all results will be released. Press conference seems unsatisfactory. [62% of what? And why only 62%?]

Ten minutes later, still not being reported.

All precincts will be reporting, but only 62% of the results. That's what they said. [Of course that makes no sense; later we are told that 62% of the precincts would be reporting.]  Most interesting: we were told that results would be released at 4:00 p.m. CT. Didn't happen.

Results released at 4:10 p.m. CT.

62% of precincts provided:
  • 26.9: Buttigieg
  • 25.1: Sanders
  • 18.3: Warren
  • 15.6: Biden
  • Klobuchar: 13%
  • Yang: 1%
41 delegates at stake, first pass:
  • Buttigieg: 30% of 41 = 12 delegates (twice the number of popular votes than Biden)
  • Sanders: 30% of 41 = 12 delegates
  • Warren: 21% of 41 = 9 delegates
  • Biden: 19% of 41 = 8 delegates
February 5, 2020, 10:46 a.m. ET, The New York Times, and only 71% of precincts reporting:
  • Buttigieg, 26.8%: 11 delegates
  • Sanders, 35.2%: 11 delegates
  • Pocahontas, 18.4%: 5 delegates
  • Biden,15.4%: 0 delegates
  • Amy, legend in her own mind, punching above her weight, 12.6%: 0 delegates
  • Steyer, the village idiot, 0.3%; 0 delegates