Nearly twice as many Democrats turned out in Iowa tonight as compared to four years ago — 239,000 compared to 125,000.
Only 108,000 Republicans attended Thursday’s caucuses. And this is a state that went for Bush in 2004 (though by a relatively small margin).
And there’s these interesting statistics from Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone:
- Obama beat Hillary among women voters 35 to 30 percent.
- Amid record Democratic turnout, as many people under 30 showed up to caucus as those over 65.
- Sixty percent of the GOP electorate in Iowa were born-again Christians.
- Rudy Giuliani finished with a mere 4,013 votes, in sixth place, with less than half of the support of Ron Paul.