Remember again that this year, for the first time, the Iowa Dems are going to release both the vote count of initial preferences *and* the reallocated vote after voters switch their picks due to viability. If it really were to end up as close to a 2-way or 3-way tie as these polls have it at the moment, that makes it all the more likely that we could actually have a split decision, where one candidate wins one of the tallies from Iowa and another candidate wins the other.
Thanks Mr. Morden....
This slipped under my radar and is totally awesome and cool from a data mining perspective into "the obscure and mysterious world of alchemy called the Iowa Caucuses known only to the initiated priests of the order that then present the final result to the masses".
So, any idea if this will get broken down to county level results (or hopefully smaller).... ?
* Rubs hands together and starts virtually dancing at the computer making internally extremely noisy sounds of excitement and anticipation*
I don't really know anything about the details beyond what the Iowa Democratic Party has announced here:
https://iowademocrats.org/iowa-democratic-party-proposes-historic-changes-2020-iowa-caucuses/The IDP plans to release the raw totals from the first alignment, final alignment and the state delegate equivalents earned by each presidential preference group. State delegate equivalents will be used to determine the allocation of national delegates.