Our ed_kilgore reports from Des Moines precinct 62
Before the fun started at Drake University. Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images On the occasion of my third round of Iowa Caucuses , I took the advice of the Des Moines Register and went to Drake University’s Knapp Center, where Des Moines precinct number 62 gathered to make an impact on the 2020 Democratic presidential contest:
It is a more comfortable if less intimate setting than in past Caucuses where participants milled around and observers like me stood in a corner. Here at the Knapp Center , caucus-goers were directed to their candidate preference seating areas from the get-go while us media types were sequestered behind the two goals, hoping that either the alignment numbers would be announced or that we could quickly count them from the sections they occupy.
While waiting for everyone who was in line for registration at the witching hour to sit down, the precinct chair asked for a show of hands of first-time caucus-goer, and it was notable that two-thirds of those in Bernie’s section responded affirmatively. It’s a good sign for his campaign’s efforts to build a big turnout based on his strong appeal to millennials.
The counting process is elaborate but transparent. The preference groups were been told to bunch up and eliminate empty seats in their areas. It quickly looked like as though five candidates could exceed the 15 percent viability threshold in the first round .
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