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After the first count many remained undecided. Talk Radio News spoke with three undecided caucus participants, Julie Doy, Cindy Hickman, and Kelly Johnson, at the Des Moines Precinct 212 Democratic Caucus.

 

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After coming in second behind Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney addresses supporters in West Des Moines, Iowa.

 

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After coming in second behind Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, Ann Romney addresses supporters in West Des Moines, Iowa.

 

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Talk Radio News Service observed the Democratic caucus for Des Moines precinct 212. Fred Nichols, the precinct chair gathers the count from one round of the caucus.

 

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At Valley High School in West Des Moines there were eight separate precinct caucuses going on, one Republican and one Democrat per precinct. This fact, along with one of the highest caucus turnouts in recent Iowa history created a very disorganized situation. Meredith MacKenzie talked to Mary Bell, a Republican caucus participant from the Clive, Iowa 3rd precinct about the situation.

 

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Talk Radio News Service caught Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as she visited with caucus goers in West Des Moines, Iowa.

 

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Meredith MacKenzie interviews Matt and Ben Romney making an appearance at a multiple caucus site in West Des Moines, Iowa to promote their father Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for president.

 

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So as we’ve explained the Democratic caucus is an interesting affair where viability or having 15 percent of the caucus goers in support of a candidate. Without that 15 percent supporters are forced to either recruit other caucus goers or abandon their candidate and support another one. There’s a very slim chance here in Iowa that any of the second tier Democratic candidates will be overwhelmingly viable. Dennis Kucinich has already said that his supporters should caucus for Barack Obama if he proves not to be viable at their caucus. Now imagine if Bill Richardson, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden all said that. Now, they haven’t but if the mentality of second tier candidate supporters is anti-Hillary, they might support Edwards or Obama should their candidate not prove viable. No one can foresee how much of a difference this will make, but depending on the pockets of Dodd, Richardson, Kucinich, and Biden supporters it could be large enough to land Hillary Clinton second or third overall in the state.

The effect of a spoiler third candidate in the general election can sometimes be enough to sway the race, imagine if there were three or four of them. Strategy, possible coming out of the second tier camps, will be the name of the game tonight

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Meredith MacKenzie interviews Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge on her caucus experience and views of Iowa voters on caucus day in Des Moines.

 

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