Official Statement from the IDP Chair





DES MOINES—IDP Chair Dr. Andy McGuire released the following statement on tonight’s 2016 Iowa Democratic Precinct Caucuses:


“Tonight we saw an historically close Iowa Democratic Caucus that featured one of our strongest turnouts ever and passion and energy from Democrats all across our state.

“After a year where Iowans took the time to see candidates, ask them thoughtful questions, and became volunteers and leaders themselves, tonight 171,109 Iowa Democrats came together with their neighbors to engage in a spirited discussion on the future of our country. We saw passionate, engaged Iowans turn out in all 99 counties, and for the first time ever, the IDP ran both a Tele-Caucus and satellite caucus locations, fulfilling our promise to expand participation and improve on an already incredible process.

“The results tonight are the closest in Iowa Democratic caucus history. Hillary Clinton has been awarded 699.57 state delegate equivalents, Bernie Sanders has been awarded 695.49 state delegate equivalents, Martin O’Malley has been awarded 7.68 state delegate equivalents and uncommitted has been awarded .46 state delegate equivalents. We still have outstanding results in one precinct (Des Moines—42), which is worth 2.28 state delegate equivalents. We will report that final precinct when we have confirmed those results with the chair

Um...

Sanders won a moral...um...victory!

Screw him.

It's a close race, and I'm loving every minute of it.

is Bernie -authenticity counts

Sanders really won because he's authentic. Wow.

Hillary gets more delegates - she won the caucus. Anything else is just sore loser bullshit. They can't be satisfied that Bernie came close - no, they have to try and pretend down is up. Whatever - let them live in la la land.

The failure to recognize the level of bad this is for Sanders is amazing.

You are correct though, let them live in la la land.

When he wins NH they will spin that as a huge deal. Hillary is laughing all the way to SC.

always was going to be clinton....bernie did the best he could do and once primaries move away for these first few small states...its all over

... but Fuck Todd is irrelevant. He has been a shit journalist for a long time, and Jeremy Scahill verbally accosted him on Real Time with Bill Maher to the point where Todd whined why he embarrassed him after the show.