Democrats will meet in 1,678 sites across Iowa, plus 87 satellite locations, to begin the process of picking the party's 2020 nominee.
"The Democratic process can take two to three hours," Mack Shelley, chair of the department of political science at Iowa State University, explained to. He noted that this is the amount of time it would take to carry out"first-round voting, reaffiliation, allocating delegates, plus fundraising, signing petitions, debating platform planks, and general discussion of political issues.
While the additional counts being released may allow multiple candidates to declare some semblance of victory, the number that actually matters is the final delegate count.While multiple candidates can win delegates in the Iowa caucus, it is unlikely that there would be a tie. In the end, there will be 49 delegates from Iowa sent to the Democratic National Convention in July."Democrats will send 41 pledged delegates, which is a small enough number that a tie is possible at that point," Shelley said."Eight other 'superdelegates' will be selected."Some progressives have raised concerns about the caucus system and the fact that Iowa is the first state to publicly express its opinion about who a party's nominee should be.
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