Sen. Bernie Sanders will ask for a recount of the results of the Iowa Caucus, a member of the Sanders campaign said on Tuesday. “We now believe a recount will give Sen. Sanders enough State Delegate Equivalents to put him over the top by that metric as well. We want to thank the people of […]
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Mark Smith elected interim chair of the Iowa Democratic Party, promises big wins
Mark Smith was elected interim chair of the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) on Saturday. Smith, who has represented the Marshalltown area in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2001, will serve through the November general election. Smith replaces Troy Price, who announced his resignation on Wednesday, Feb. 12, apologizing for the failures that plagued the […]
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Troy Price resigns as chair of the Iowa Democratic Party as caucus problems continue
Troy Price, the chair of the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP), submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday afternoon, apologizing for the failures that plagued the reporting of results from the Feb. 3 caucus. “The fact is that Democrats deserved better than what happened on caucus night,” Prince wrote in his letter to the IDP State Central Committee.
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The Iowa Democratic Party establishes a timeline to determine the timeline for a caucus recanvass
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) has now established a timeline for completing a partial recanvass of the results in the Feb. 3 caucus. Or rather, a timeline for deciding what the timeline for the recanvass will be. On Monday, both the Sanders and Buttigieg campaign requested recanvasses
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‘They screwed it up badly’: Caucus troubles continue as delegates are awarded, a recanvass is expected and bad math is defended
A week after the Iowa Caucus, its outcome is still uncertain, but that didn’t stop the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) from announcing the projected number of delegates to the Democratic National Convention each candidate won in the Feb. 3 caucus. Pete Buttigieg, who had the second-highest number of supporters in the caucus,
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Watch: Caucus night at Coralville Precinct 1
Not everything went wrong on Caucus Day. A Democratic precinct in Coralville, Iowa saw a record turnout and relatively smooth proceedings — even though caucus rules can be confusing. Little Village sat in on Coralville Precinct 1 (at the Coralville Center for the Performing Arts) the night of Monday, Feb. 3, 2020.
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‘The Republican Party is a cult’: Trump challenger Joe Walsh drops out of 2020 race after being booed during Iowa Caucus
Joe Walsh (not the Eagles guitarist; the other one) announced on Friday he is dropping out the 2020 race for president. Anyone not following politics very closely can be excused for not realizing Joe Walsh was running for president, or knowing who Joe Walsh is.
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The AP gives up on trying to declare a caucus winner, as Iowa Democratic Party reports 100 percent of results
The Associated Press announced on Thursday night it is unable to declare a winner in the Iowa Democratic Party’s (IDP) caucus, held Monday. For decades, news organizations and readers across the world have relied on the AP’s reporting of the Iowa Caucus, and counted on it to determine who could be legitimately described as the […]
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Caucus-pocalypse, day 3: An almost-finished count, phone trolls, a hackable app and a call to recanvass
On Thursday, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Tom Perez used his Twitter account to publicly called for a recanvass of the Iowa Caucus results. A recanvass would involve auditing the reported results using the results reporting sheets filled out at each caucus precinct. Following Perez’s tweet, the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) sent out a written statement
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Sanders earned more supporters but fewer delegates than Buttigieg, according to partial caucus results
The Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) released results from 1099 of 1765 caucus precincts, or 62.3 percent, on Tuesday afternoon. The partial results show Pete Buttigieg in the lead in the numbers of delegate awarded by the IDP, followed closely by Sen. Bernie Sanders. But more people supported Sanders than Buttigieg in the final alignments last night.
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‘Iowa, you have shocked the nation’ as a smartphone app derails reporting of Democratic caucus results
After a year of almost constant campaigning by 26 Democratic candidates, and promises by the Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) that this year’s caucus would provide more information than ever before—thanks in large part to precinct managers using a new smartphone app—there was no reliable information reported by the IDP on Monday night
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Shuttle service available for caucus sites in Iowa City
Iowa City Transit will be running shuttles to caucus sites Monday, even off of normal bus routes. The shuttles will run every 30 minutes, starting at 5:30 p.m., and continue until after caucus activities conclude at the site the shuttle is servicing.
