Sanders wins missing precinct, so Clinton wins Iowa by 2/10ths of 1 percent

[BigBearJohn]

DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Bernie Sanders won the missing precinct that held back official Iowa Democratic caucus results on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton scraped by with a victory of 0.2 percent.

The last precinct to report -- Polk County's precinct No. 42 -- reported a Sanders win with 58.3 percent of support above Clinton's 41.7 percent. In Iowa with all 1,683 precincts reporting, Clinton won with 49.8 percent to Sanders' 49.6 percent.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/02/02/Sanders-wins-missing-precinct-Clinton-wins-Iowa-by-02-percent/8851454416476/

[nc4bo]

1. A tie. nt

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. A mandate for sure! nt

[RoccoR5955]

15. More like a gnat's testicle. n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

5. Her supporters here think so.

[Betty Karlson]

6. DINO-Debbie is very displeased you would even doubt that. eom

[warrprayer]

7. Kick

And recc

[ErisDiscordia]

8. UNLESS and UNTIL the requested recount occurs

I am beginning to think DWS is incapable of even walking in a straight line, forwards.

[cantbeserious]

9. Seems The Coronation Has Run Aground For SS HRC

eom

[SoapBox]

22. The Assumptive Queen's procession...

Has run into a YOUUUGE roadblock called Bernie and millions of voters!

[thesquanderer]

10. I wonder if O'Malley's voters made the difference

I did see a report that, based on "second choice" polling, O'Malley voters tended to prefer Sanders over Clinton.

Though unless that would have altered the delegate count, it might have made no practical difference anyway.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

17. Probably, but he won't be around to play spoiler for future states.

He got enough delegates to have flipped it.

[jeff47]

20. He got around 0.6%.

So theoretically his voters could have turned a virtual tie into a virtual tie.

[thesquanderer]

21. LOL

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

11. A tie even with all the funny business. I wonder how he really did.

[Fast Walker 52]

13. good question-- I think it was close but he probably edged her by a point or two

[roody]

16. My caucus was clean. I'm sure that most were.

[Fast Walker 52]

12. Clinton "won" Iowa-- the media really needs to use airquotes

[dragonfly301]

14. There is still one missing

in Fremont county - https://www.idpcaucuses.com/#/county/19071

[book_worm]

18. congratulations to both candidates on a closely fought race.

[sinkingfeeling]

19. If the turnout was 171,000, then she won by 342 votes.

[Bernblu]

23. I'm pretty certain Bernie won the popular vote by up to 2 or 3%

but it was close in delegates because Bernie's vote was more concentrated in college towns that had large turnouts. He had several precincts that were blowouts like in Iowa City 05 were he won 522-110. Most of the rural districts where Clinton did well had low turnouts. This is much like Al Gore winning the popular vote in 2000. They should release the popular vote totals.

[Bernblu]

24. If one delegate is moved from Hillary to Bernie it would be effectively tied

with Bernie having a very slight lead. Based on previous election glitches it is not unlikely that if they went over the data they would find a mistake made in the allocation of the delegates. Of course with the IDP in the bag for Clinton they are not going to do a recount. I am sure if it was the other way around a recount would be called.