Democratic Iowa Caucus results thread (entrance poll @8pm ET)

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A poll just out today is showing Sanders with a 3 point lead in Iowa. Oh boy this is gonna be fun.

From, uh, Quinnipiac, though, which is a not very good pollster.

Better than Emerson, though.

Better than Emerson means not Gravis.

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Bernie has a better chance than Trump at winning Iowa at this point.

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LOL, she declared victory and it's a 0.2% lead with 93% in? Come on, lets have Hillary be wrong again.

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So the inevitable candidate put 90% of her campaign into this? What a joke.

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LOL, they did the same thing in the 2004 general election. "We're too close to call in a close election? Yawn. We're off to bed."

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MSNBC is saying 90 precincts weren't staffed by the Iowa Democratic Party.

DWS should resign immediately this is disgraceful.

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LOL, they're just asking for accusations of stealing elections.

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It looks like Hillary won 5 delegates with a coin toss

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/sometimes-iowa-democrats-award-caucus-delegates-coin-flip/79680342/

Damn it, Bernie was just a nickle away from leading.

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What happens if it's a tie? A coin flip? lol

Nothing, I think. They'd both get the same amount of delegates out of Iowa.

Yeah, they could tie in delegates, and there'd be no need to do a coin flip.  The state doesn't have to have a "winner".  They can just send an equal number of delegates to the DNC.

There's an odd number of at large national delegates, so I guess another coin flip.

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we've already known for ages he had a decent shot to win Iowa.

Says the guy with an inevitable signature.

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lol at all the frustrated, delusional Bernie assholes trying to pretend Bernie beat expectations and never had a chance in Iowa.
CNN had Bernie up 9 in Iowa, and the polls have been MOE for the last month.
Just 12 hours ago these kids were saying Bernie was going to easily win because of the enthusiasm gap.  Now they hope we've all forgotten.  Steve McQueen remembers.

Nope, and it looks like she won just because she got lucky with coin flips.

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For those who followed the polls from way back when … is it true that Hillary Clinton used to lead Bernie Sanders in Iowa by more than 20 percentage points?

If that is accurate … what do you think happened?

PPP had Hillary up 62-14 over Bernie in April. Bernie happened.

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It looks like Hillary won 5 delegates with a coin toss

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/02/02/sometimes-iowa-democrats-award-caucus-delegates-coin-flip/79680342/

I wonder if winning 5 out of 5 coin flips is statistically significant?  Jfern?

It was 6 out of 7, and while she definitely got lucky, no.

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Well, Hillary narrowly wins thanks to her coin tosses. But, LOL, they use fraction state delegates. Here's the current count.

Clinton 699.57
Sanders 695.49
O'Malley 7.68
Uncommited 0.46
That last precinct 2.28

http://iowademocrats.org/statement-from-idp-chair-on-tonights-historically-close-caucus-results/#more-14967