The Green Papers 2008 Presidential Primaries, Caucuses, and Conventions |
Iowa Democrat Presidential Nominating Process Caucus: Thursday 3 January 20081 County Conventions: Saturday 15 March 2008 District Conventions: Saturday 26 April 2008 State Convention postponed: Saturday 14 June 2008 State Convention: Saturday 28 June 2008 |
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Delegate Selection: Caucus/Convention Voter Eligibility: Closed Caucus Voter Participation: Party members 57 total delegate votes - 29 district / 10 at large; 6 Pledged PLEOs; 11 Unpledged PLEOs; 1 Unpledged add-on |
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Here's how we compute the delegate count:
Saturday 28 June 2008 State Convention: http://www.iowaindependent.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2536 and http://jdeeth.blogspot.com/. In lieu of taking a Presidential preference poll at the State Convention, the campaigns chose to honor the math as if all delegates elected at the County Conventions remained committed to their Saturday 15 March 2008 County Convention preferences. Pledged PLEO delegates elected: Obama 3, Clinton 2, Edwards 1. At-Large Delegates elected: Obama 5, Clinton 3, Edwards 2. The Obama supporters allowed the Clinton and Edwards State Convention delegates choose their National Convention Delegates however the Obama group "ratified" the choices. Hence, we have "hard coded" the Clinton (2 PLEO, 3 At-Large) and Edwards (1 PLEO, 2 At-Large) delegates as such but "soft coded" those delegates as Obama (3 PLEO, 5 At-Large) supporters. 26 April 2008 District Convention Results from a party, a media, and a media source, CD 3 Party
According to the 15 May 2008 article below, 1 Edwards pledged delegate intends to cast her ballot for Obama. Accordingly, we have changed our soft pledged count from Obama 24, Clinton 14, Edwards 7 to Obama 25, Clinton 14, Edwards 6. Our hard count remains Obama 16, Clinton 9, Edwards 4 as elected at the Distict Conventions. An additional 6 Pledged PLEO and 10 At-Large Delegates will be elected at the Saturday 14 June 2008 Iowa State Democratic Convention.
15 May 2008 CNN.com: Eight Edwards delegates [1 in IA] now moving to Obama: One Edwards delegate from Iowa, Machelle Crum [CD 3], came out for Obama on Thursday morning ... Crum made the decision after receiving a phone call from Edwards supporters encouraging her to make the switch. According ot the 16 May 2008 article below, the 3 estimated statewide Edwards delegates may go to Obama when elected on 14 June 2008 Convention. Since these delegates have not yet been elected, we are have not changed our delegate count. 16 May 2008 press-citizen.com: Edwards' delegates to go to Obama: David Redlawsk, who also is a University of Iowa political science professor, said Edwards' Wednesday announcement likely will cause three Edwards' delegates to change to Obama at the state Democratic Convention on June 14 in Des Moines. According to the 16 May 2008 article below, 1 Edwards pledged delegate intends to cast her ballot for Obama. Accordingly, we have changed our soft pledged count from Obama 25, Clinton 14, Edwards 6 to Obama 26, Clinton 14, Edwards 5.
15 May 2008 ap.google.com: Edwards endorsement pays off for Obama: Arlene Prather-O'Kane, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, said she is a backer of Edwards but "I will support who he is endorsing — which is Barack". 3 June 2008: The Obama Campaign today announced that all 4 delegates pledged to former Senator John Edwards have committed to vote for Senator Obama at the Democratic National Convention. Machelle Crum, Newton 15 March 2008 County Convention update. Here's how we estimated the delegate count on 15 March 2008 (Based on the number of delegates elected to the State Convention at the County Conventions. Results from a party source. Note that zero national convention delegates are allocated during the County Conventions - national convention delegates are first elected in April.):
Here's how we estimated the delegate count on 3 January 2008 (Based on the number of delegates elected to the County Conventions at the Precinct Conventions. Results from a party source. Note that zero national convention delegates are allocated during the Precinct Conventions - national convention delegates are first elected in April.): The Iowa Democratic Party reports that more than 239,000 Democrats caucused statewide.
Reference: Iowa Caucus Results Live Unpledged delegates as of |
Saturday 28 June 2008: The Iowa State Democratic Convention convenes. The State Convention chooses 16 of the Iowa's Pledged delegates to the Democratic National Convention. A mandatory 15 percent threshold is required in order for a presidential contender to be allocated National Convention delegates at the statewide level. 16 delegates are to be allocated to presidential contenders based the support for the presidential contenders in the State Convention as a whole.
The remaining 12 National Convention delegates consist of
These 12 delegates and will go to the Democratic National Convention officially "Unpledged". Only as of Saturday 28 June 2008 will ALL of Iowa's 57 Democratic National Convention delegates have been allocated: the estimates made re: delegate allocation as a result of the Iowa caucuses will likely not match the presidential preferences and pledges of the National Convention delegates as actually chosen because it is rather probable that the field of Democratic presidential contenders on Saturday 28 June 2008 will very well be quite different from the way that same field looked at the time the Iowa Precinct Caucuses had taken place way back in January! |
Delegation to the National Convention |
Iowa Delegation (as posted by http://www.demconvention.com/, 18 July 2008)
Role | Clinton | Edwards | Obama | (total) |
Pledged District | 9 | 4 | 16 | 29 |
Pledged PLEO | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Pledged At-Large | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Total Pledged | 9 | 4 | 32 | 45 |
Alternate Pledged District | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
Alternate Pledged PLEO | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Alternate Pledged At-Large | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Total Alternates | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
Unpledged | 12 | |||
Credentials Committee | 2 | |||
Platform Committee | 2 | |||
Rules Committee | 3 | |||
Pages | 2 |
Role(s) | Preference | Name | Residence |
Pledged District 1 | Obama | George Dixon | Dewitt, IA |
Pledged District 1 | Obama | Jacob Krapfl | New Vienna, IA |
Pledged District 1 | Clinton | Wayne Laufenberg | Saint Donatos, IA |
Pledged District 1 | Clinton | Helen McClain | Dubuque, IA |
Pledged District 1 | Edwards | Erlene Prather-O'Kane | Cedar Falls, IA |
Pledged District 1 | Obama | Kathleen Weber | Dubuque, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Obama | Angel Gonzalez | Oakdale, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Clinton | Kathleen Krehbiel | Solon, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Obama | Richard Myers | Iowa City, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Obama | Sandra Pope | Ottumwa, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Edwards | David Redlawsk | Iowa City, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Clinton | Donald Shaffer | Ottumwa, IA |
Pledged District 2 | Obama | Peggy Whitworth | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Obama | Nancy Bobo | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Edwards | Machelle Crum | Newton, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Clinton | Danny Homan | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Obama | Joe Judge | Albia, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Obama | Jordan Oster | Clive, IA |
Pledged District 3 | Clinton | Ione Shadduck | West Des Moines, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Obama | Eddie Diaz | Perry, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Obama | Molly Grady | Marshalltown, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Obama | Tom Harrington | Ames, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Clinton | Stephanie Imhoff | Ames, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Obama | Helen Miller | Fort Dodge, IA |
Pledged District 4 | Clinton | Alan Schroeder | Chester, IA |
Pledged District 5 | Obama | Timothy Bottaro | Sioux City, IA |
Pledged District 5 | Obama | Stephanie Cosgrove | Cherokee, IA |
Pledged District 5 | Clinton | Jason Winter | Sibley, IA |
Pledged District 5 | Edwards | Marci Wolff | Sioux City, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Hon. Frank Cownie | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Hon. Ro Foege | Mount Vernon, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Hon. Patty Judge | West Des Moines, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Hon. Tom Miller | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Christie Vilsack | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged PLEO | Obama | Hon. Tom Vilsack | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Jan Bauer | Ames, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Mary Campos | Des Moines, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Catherine Crist | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Sandra Lee Galer | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Robert (RJ) Jarvis | Oskaloosa, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Paula Martinez | Carlisle, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Michelle Ray Michalec | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Faith Nalani Bromwich | Tiffin, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Carlie Tartakov | Ames, IA |
Pledged At-Large | Obama | Tammy Wetjen-Kesterson | Marengo, IA |
Alternate Pledged District 1 | Obama | Tod Bowman | Maquoketa, IA |
Alternate Pledged District 2 | Obama | Ebony Luensman | Marion, IA |
Alternate Pledged District 3 | Obama | Steven Chasse | Des Moines, IA |
Alternate Pledged District 4 | Obama | June Owens | Norwalk, IA |
Alternate Pledged District 5 | Obama | Steven Kraus | Carroll, IA |
Alternate Pledged At-Large | Obama | Hon. Bill Gluba | Davenport, IA |
Alternate Pledged At-Large | Obama | Allyson Story | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Alternate Pledged At-Large | Obama | Caroline Wildin | LuVerne, IA |
Unpledged Delegation Chair | Scott Brennan | Des Moines, IA | |
Unpledged Delegation Vice Chair | Sarah Swisher | Coralville, IA | |
Unpledged Add-On | Mari Culver | Des Moines, IA | |
Unpledged Congressman | Hon. Leonard Boswell | Des Moines, IA | |
Unpledged Congressman | Hon. Bruce L. Braley | Waterloo, IA | |
Unpledged Congressman | Hon. David Loebsack | Iowa City, IA | |
Unpledged DNC Member | Hon. Michael L. Fitzgerald | Waukee, IA | |
Unpledged DNC Member | Hon. Michael Gronstal | Des Moines, IA | |
Unpledged DNC Member | Richard Machacek | Winthrop, IA | |
Unpledged DNC Member | Sandy Opstvedt | Story City, IA | |
Unpledged Governor | Hon. Chet Culver | Des Moines, IA | |
Unpledged Senator | Hon. Tom Harkin | Washington, DC | |
Credentials Committee | Obama | Evan Anderson | Cedar Rapids, IA |
Credentials Committee | Obama | Cheryl Fasano | Des Moines, IA |
Platform Committee | Obama | Kathy Carlson | Kalona, IA |
Platform Committee | Obama | John Norris | Des Moines, IA |
Rules Committee | Obama | Ray Brown | Des Moines, IA |
Rules Committee | Deborah Groene | Des Moines, IA | |
Rules Committee | Obama | LuAnn Pedrick | Urbandale, IA |
Page | Anne Bottaro | Sioux City, IA | |
Page | Matthew Peirce | Des Moines, IA |
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