A Reporter’s View on the Outcome of the Iowa Caucuses
Sarah Boden, reporter of Iowa Public Radio, is not too surprised by the results of the Iowa Caucuses.
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Last night’s Iowa caucus results may not be too shocking to anyone following the coverage of political candidates over the past several months. But there were some noteworthy moments; Marco Rubio came in third place for the Republicans, but was the decisive so-called “establishment” victor; Hillary Clinton just barely defeated Bernie Sanders, and in some precincts she won with a literal coin toss; and perhaps the biggest winner of all was the state of Iowa where record numbers of voters turned out to caucus.
Sarah Boden is a reporter with Iowa Public Radio. She joins Detroit Today host Stephen Henderson to help unpack Iowa’s first-in-the-nation contest for 2016.