Reminder: Democratic Party Also Caucused Yesterday

Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm by JM Ashby

The majority of attention of the past 24 hours has been focused on the Clown Car Primary vote and Mitt Romney’s razor-thin margin of victory. Not to be overlooked however, the Democratic party also caucused in Iowa yesterday and turnout was surprisingly good considering there was no challenger.

The official campaign blog posted photos of the Democratic caucus collected via Twitter last night. I’ve selected a few to share here.

By @emilyholley

by @tydavisphoto

by @mattyigreene

According to Obama for America Iowa, 7,500 people volunteered for the campaign to re-elect President Obama yesterday, and a total of 25,000 turned out for the Democratic caucus.

No word on how many people voted “uncommitted.” Probably none.

Update… I’ve been informed 1.5% of those polled voted “uncommitted.” That doesn’t exactly blow my skirt up.

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  • http://twitter.com/SugaRazor Razor

    You know if there were more than four “uncommitted,” it would’ve been national news about how Democratic enthusiasm just isn’t there for President Obama.

  • Dennis Pool

    The state Democratic Party is reporting that Uncommitted received 1.54%: http://iowademocrats.org/caucus/hPressVt76HujI/

    So, obviously, Obama has a problem with his base.

    • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

      Sarcasm or not?

      • villemar

        I vote sarcasm :-)

      • Dennis Pool

        Definitely sarcasm.

        • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

          Cool. :)

  • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole
  • http://twitter.com/EIPolitics EIPolitics

    Looks like Cenk Uygur’s bullshit plan to rally folks to vote uncommitted worked great.

    /sarcasm

    P.S. I use to be a huge TYT fan before this move.

  • deacrick

    My son was there.
    His first presidential election
    He is making me proud.

    • Dennis Pool

      My first presidential election experience was to caucus for Clinton in 1992 (in Washington state). I was just 17, but as long as you were to be 18 by the general election, it was okay to caucus. I was selected as a rep for Clinton to the county caucus and later the state convention (which I couldn’t attend).

      At the time, it was a thrilling experience. It’s a very unique and personal form of democracy. I hope your son had fun.

    • JMAshby

      Good!

      My first presidential vote was for John Kerry. Disappointing results.

      • ranger11

        My first presidential vote was for Jesse Jackson in the ’88 Democratic primary. I then voted for the first George Bush in November. I was a very confused 18 year old.

  • mrbrink

    I LOVE this.

    And I think I’m in love with the Iowa Democratic Party caucus.

    On NBC local news last night, all the talk was regarding the Republican clown car party, but then they shifted gears and segued into a special report from Carol Marin on “the other” caucus happening in Iowa. She interviewed several older ladies wearing Obama 2012 t-shirts and they were talking with tongue and cheek confidence about president Obama and their chances in the 2012 election.

    Politically savvy AND capable of getting in a little good-hearted snark?

    It was a classy move on the part of NBC news. They didn’t have to say a damn thing about Democrats in Iowa.

    I could go on and on.

    Great piece, Ashby.

    Made my day.

  • villemar

    But but but Cenk said there was no difference!