UNCOMMITTED, BOULTON LEAD INITIAL COUNTY CONVENTION RESULTS
Iowa Democrats are holding their county conventions across the state today, the second part in the caucus-to-convention process that could determine the party’s gubernatorial nominee. Were none of the six Democrats to reach 35% in the June 5 primary, the delegates at the state convention would instead choose a winner. The people to fill those state delegate roles are being chosen today at county conventions.
Starting Line has been tracking results from across the state, verifying it with local contacts as we go. So far, Uncommitted/Non-Aligned leads the total delegate count, while Nate Boulton, Cathy Glasson and Fred Hubbell each have sizable amounts of delegates each.
The vast majority of counties, however, did not break out into gubernatorial preference group, instead electing delegates at-large. Most of the state’s largest counties, including Linn, Scott, Black Hawk, Woodbury, Pottawattamie and Dallas counties, did not do preference groups.
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As of about 9:00 P.M. Saturday, the numbers broke down like this (which covers 776 of the total 1,000 state-level delegates):
Uncommitted/Non-Aligned: 496
Boulton: 121
Glasson: 87
Hubbell: 61
Norris: 11
While the majority of delegates heading to the state convention will not be officially aligned with a candidate, most people elected as non-aligned and uncommitted delegates are backing a specific campaign.
Glasson’s campaign seemed to push for preference groups in some locations. Boulton, Norris and Hubbell’s operations looked to be perfectly content to get their supporters elected through non-aligned/at-large delegate spots in counties that didn’t do preference groups. Andy McGuire’s supporters’ strategy appeared to be to join uncommitted groups at the outset in counties that broke out and didn’t even try to get their own preference group viable.
https://iowastartingline.com/2018/03/24/uncommitted-boulton-lead-initial-county-convention-results/