Iowa Caucus

Troy Price’s tenure as the Iowa Democratic Party chair officially comes to an end today as the party’s state central committee gathers to select an interim replacement. He announced his resignation on Wednesday, following over a week of fallout from the party’s breakdown in reporting out the Iowa Caucus results. Though the chaos on caucus…

Troy Price’s tenure as the Iowa Democratic Party chair officially comes to an end today as the party’s state central committee gathers to select an interim replacement. He announced his resignation on Wednesday, following over a week of fallout from the party’s breakdown in reporting out the Iowa Caucus results. Though the chaos on caucus…

Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price will step down as the head of the state party, he announced this afternoon. His departure will come after the intense criticism of the delayed results from last week’s Iowa Caucus, which still are not fully final as campaigns and the party work through a recanvass process of precincts…

Sandwiched in-between Burlington and Muscatine, along the Mississippi River, the “bedroom community” of Wapello, Iowa, is not a common stop for Democrats on the presidential campaign trail. But on Feb. 3, an unexpected candidate drew some “pretty surprised faces,” Holly Stineman said, as caucus-goers in Wapello showed their support for Andrew Yang. “The energy around…

Guest op-ed by Mike Jacobsen, a higher education professional from Williamsburg, Iowa Feb. 3, 2020, the day after the Super Bowl (and my birthday), was going to be a day to remember. Iowa was to kick off the “official” beginning to the 2020 election season, and I was honored to be asked to serve as…

With a little time to breathe now that most of the drama around the caucus reporting has slowed down, the Starting Line team is looking back at everything we experienced this past year. There really is nothing else in American politics like living through a caucus campaign cycle, whether you’re working on a campaign, reporting…

With a little time to breathe now that most of the drama around the caucus reporting has slowed down, the Starting Line team is looking back at everything we experienced this past year. There really is nothing else in American politics like living through a caucus campaign cycle, whether you’re working on a campaign, reporting…

The end result of the Iowa Caucus may have largely been a split decision for Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders, but there were plenty of useful insights we got into every candidate’s coalition from Monday. Where each candidate did well and poorly in Iowa could preview how they perform with certain demographics and regions in…

The Iowa caucuses were supposed to be the first moment of sweeping Democratic turnout in 2020. But while results are still trickling in, it’s become clear that turnout was not the giant surge people had hoped and prepared for. Despite three years of a Trump presidency, a year of interactions with candidates and good weather…

It is done. Maybe. The Iowa Democratic Party released all 100% of precinct results this evening. The final count showed Pete Buttigieg with an extremely narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in the state delegate equivalent count, but questions remain about how accurate many precinct results are. Buttigieg has earned 564.012 SDEs to Sanders’ 562.497, according…