official Iowa Democratic results thread

[Mr. Morden]

Will the entrance poll results be discussed in here?  Or is it only for the real results?

[Mr. Morden]

As I posted in another thread:

Link:

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/03/545314.aspx

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Presumably the entrance polls will come out *very* soon after the caucuses are called to order.

Don't know exactly when real results will come out, but here's a thread from 2004 discussing Iowa results:

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=426.15

and zorkpolitics posted the first results (13% of precincts reporting in) at 8:47pm Eastern.  Also, this blog post from National Review:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YTY0OGJjMGUwYzNkNmFlMWYwN2Y3YjBjOTk5MWIzNTg=

has 32% of precincts reporting at 8:54 Eastern back in 2004.  Don't know if the caucus start time was the same back then, and don't know if the GOP results would come out on a similar timeline.

[Mr. Morden]

Found this from 2004:

http://www.johnson-county.com/auditor/voter/caucus04.htm

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(Presumably, they're talking about Central Time there.)

So that means that four years ago, the actual results started coming out fast just ~1hr 15 min. or so after the caucuses started.