Iowa Caucuses (Des Moines Register)

03/19/2012

Iowa Republicans today approved a 17-member Iowa Caucus Review Committee

The committee will be chaired by Republican Party of Iowa Co-Chair Bill Schickel. Iowa Secretary of State Deputy of Elections Mary Mosiman will be the committee co-chair.

See who else is on the committee:

Iowa GOP launches caucus committee « Des Moines Register Staff Blogs from The Des Moines Register.

01/31/2012

Embattled Iowa GOP chairman Matt Strawn will step down at the end of next week, he said this morning, citing competing priorities in his personal, business and political life.

01/29/2012

Rick Sa****um taps Iowan Jill Latham for national role: http://dmreg.co/zIwFf0


Latham was senior Iowa adviser to Sa****um’s winning Iowa caucus campaign. In a press release announcing the appointment, Sa****um credited Latham’s work with helping him secure his come-from-behind Iowa victory.

Rick Sa****um taps Iowan Jill Latham for national role « Des Moines Register Staff Blogs from The Des Moines Register.

01/21/2012

The winner of the 2012 Iowa caucuses was Rick Sa****um, but the loser was Iowa:

The certified results released this week from the nation’s first presidential nominating contest revealed that Mitt Romney’s declared eight-vote victory on caucus night was actually a 34-vote defeat. They revealed that eight voting precincts went missing in action, and their votes will never be coun...

01/19/2012

Perry suspends campaign: “There is no viable path forward for me” http://dmreg.co/w17lUz

Texas governor Rick Perry announced this morning in North Charleston, S.C. that he was suspending his presidential campaign.

01/19/2012

Rick Perry suspends presidential campaign, endorses Newt Gingrich

01/19/2012

Sa****um's spokeman said new caucus results figures means Romney isn't shoo-in for nominee:

Rick Sa****um’s spokesman in a statement this morning said the certified Iowa caucus tally, which gives the GOP presidential candidate a 34-point edge, mean that Mitt Romney isn’t the inevitable nominee.

01/19/2012

A review of results reporting over the years show a process that is getting better, but still is not flawless.

See a timeline of caucus results through the years:

After years of criticism, Republican Party officials turned over the counting to media organizations in 1988. Newspapers and television networks declined to continue that arrangement after 2004, citing the expense, and the GOP has been on its own for two cycles now.

01/19/2012

Take a look at the data: http://dmreg.co/xSHdls

Click here for a spreadsheet of certified caucus results, released to the Des Moines Register at 8:15 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19.

01/19/2012

In his response to the certified results of the 2012 Iowa caucuses, presidential candidate Mitt Romney thanks party officials, recognizes his GOP opponent’s “strong performance” and zeroes in on the Democrat in the White House.

Romney was declared the winner of the Jan. 3 caucuses over two weeks ago, but Iowa GOP officials say the certified results, although incomplete, give second-place finisher Rick Sa****um a 34-vote advantage.

01/19/2012

Newly certified results: Sa****um finished ahead by 34 votes

It's a tie for the ages. There are too many holes in the certified totals from the Iowa caucuses to know for certain who won, but Rick Sa****um wound up with a 34-vote advantage.

01/16/2012

Iowa counties have until close of business on Wednesday to get their official paperwork with their caucus results to the Republican Party of Iowa, and the certification process should wrap up by the end of this week, party officials said today.