When Will We Hear Results on the East Coast?

[liberalpragmatist]

Okay, so I'm not East Coast, but I AM Eastern time. When should I expect results? 11:30? 12:00? I really wanna stay up as late as possible, but I do have school tommorrow.

[Mass_Liberal]

1. me too, man

I gotta wake my ass up at 6:15 for school. And yet I am extremely excited and would do anything to watch to the end.

[Cuban_Liberal]

2. GET THEM *LIVE* ONLINE: look around 10:00 p.m. EST

http://www.caucus2004.org . it's the Iowa Democratic Party's site, and the results will be real-time, as they are phoned in. :)

[burythehatchet]

3. Its going to go late into the night

I think it will be a very interesting night

[Maddy McCall]

4. I believe Iowa is Central Time, I think

And the caucus begins at 6.

That would be 7 Eastern time.

I expect results to start coming in at about 7:30 or 8:00 central time, so that would be about 9:30 or 10 for you.

[liberalpragmatist]

6. Nope, other way around

Eastern's an hr ahead of central, so the caucus, which starts 6:30 Central will be 7:30 Eastern. So I guess that means results will at least partly be in 8:30/9:00

[Waistdeep]

7. The caucuses begin at 6:30 CST, not 6

Breaking into preference groups does not take place before 7pm.

[Waistdeep]

5. I would think most results would be in by 10pm EST

The caucuses break up into preference groups around 7pm CST or a little later. The discussion and realignment takes an hour or so. Then after the final alignment into preference groups, the precinct chairman phones the result into a computer using touch-tone input. I would think even the last precincts would be reporting well before 9pm CST/ 10pm EST. Since everything goes directly into the computer, preliminary results should be available immediately. I would expect the result to be clear well before that.