Back on Feb 2nd, when a 1000 people got together in a barn in Iowa, 500 on one side of the barn, 500 on the other, and then one caucus participant walked from the Bernie side of the barn to the Hillary side of the barn*, some folks said that the overwhelming victory this clear domination of the contest indicated was not the last word. Meanwhile, in a shed somewhere at an undisclosed location the state’s lone Martin O’Malley supporter caucused alone. [end snark]
On Saturday, March 12th the thousands of delegates elected at the precinct caucuses will reconvene, this time at 99 county conventions. Because some delegates were elected to support neither Hillary nor Bernie, and because not all delegates will actually show up, and because none of the delegates are actually pledged, and because Hillary’s delegate margin was tiny, this is not entirely pro forma. It is entirely possible that the state level results estimated on Feb 2nd will be changed by this vote. Of course, nobody will know for sure whether Bernie won Iowa until the IA caucuses actually end...in June, after two more rounds of voting.
*This is not intended to factually report the events of Feb 2nd, this is a dramatization of the margin involved. If you don't know what happened on Feb 2nd in IA’s precinct caucuses, you are not the target audience of this diary.