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Why Last Night’s Biggest Winners May Have Lost The Iowa Caucuses
Posted On Feb 02 2016
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The 2016 election is shaping up to be the year of angry voters as disgruntled Americans worry about issues such as immigration, terrorism, income inequality and healthcare, fueling the campaigns of Trump, Sanders and Cruz.
Former Maryland Governor Martin O’ Malley received less than 1 percent of the vote and was rewarded 7.61 state delegate equivalents, said the newly released results hours after O’Malley dropped out of the race. Clinton had the third most new followers, with 6,210 liking her page in the past day.
The party declared the result on Tuesday and said it would not be recounting any of the close ties.
Clinton, the Democratic front-runner and former secretary of state, was in a virtual tie with Sanders with more than 93 per cent of Iowa precincts reporting. Clinton’s 0.3 percent lead will translate into 699.57 state delegate equivalents to Sanders’ 695.49. Clinton won that toss, too. The victor of the Iowa caucus is determined by each caucus location, not the raw number of votes cast by Democratic voters who showed up.
“As I stand here tonight breathing a big sigh of relief”, Clinton told the crowd.
Iowa and New Hampshire, he said, are “two of the most challenging places” for Mrs Clinton’s presidential campaign.
In what he described as a victory for the grassroots, conservative Texan lawmaker Cruz won with 28 per cent of the vote compared to 24 per cent for Trump.
Mr Rubio came close to relegating Mr Trump to what would have been a humiliating third place. Marco Rubio. Heading into next week’s New Hampshire primary, Trump’s campaign is not quite on life support, but it has lost its inevitability and most of its swagger. And while Trump beat Rubio in Iowa, placing second, his performance in Iowa was not as solid as recent polls suggested.
Politics website FiveThirtyEight points out a delegate awarded a coin toss is only for a county and does not carry the greater importance of a statewide delegate. There are three delegates still to be awarded.
