The Iowa Democratic Party on Sunday released updated results from the Iowa caucus, showing Hillary Clinton still narrowly winning the state, after results from five precincts were corrected.
Following the corrections, Clinton lost 0.122 state delegate equivalents, Sen. Bernie Sanders gained 0.1053 state delegate equivalents, and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley gained 0.0167 state delegate equivalents.
Clinton earned 700.47 delegate equivalents and 49.84 percent support, while Sanders earned 696.92 delegate equivalents and 49.59 percent support, according to the revised results released by the Iowa Democratic Party. O’Malley earned 7.63 delegate equivalents and 0.54 percent support.
“I would like to thank the campaigns and local party leadership for working so hard on caucus night and in the following days to ensure that our results are accurate,” party chair Dr. Andy McGuire said in a Sunday statement.
Following concerns about the caucus results aired by Sanders’ campaign, the Iowa Democratic Party said it would not conduct a recount of the caucuses. But following questions asked by both Sanders and Clinton about the final results, the party launched a review of 14 precinct results. The party said on Thursday that it was “working with all campaigns on individual concerns they are bringing to us, and addressing them on a case-by-case basis.”
Given how close the results were, given that Iowa delegates will be initially bound in proportion to the caucus results (i.e., not a “winner take all” system), and given that Iowa doesn’t control what you’d call a huge block of delegates in the first place, none of this matters. It was a tie. Close enough.
Well. I guess that settles that.
Remember, in 2012, the Republican Primary first declared Santorum the winner, then Romney, then Santorum again, then, finally months later, Romney.
Not that it mattered in the end as Santorum flamed out quickly.
Iowa is NOWHERE NEAR representative of the USA as a whole, (neither is New Hampshire) and can be pretty much ignored.
Super Tuesday is what matters That is when the rubber hits the road.
That was even more the case in 2012, when the Iowa caucuses were still just a beauty contest, with no impact on delegates at all. That’s changed for 2016, but Iowa is still pretty much irrelevant.
I’m still not satisfied in the number of decimal places the delegate count is carried out to. We have the technology, we can go five!