before the caucuses Thursday.
The site doesn’t tabulate the results via a single survey then it draws on its staff’s insight, which has developed over the course of its intimate coverage of the caucuses.
Iowa Independent’s Chase Martyn explains:
The rankings are derived from impressions we received from activists, campaign officials, seasoned political observers, and rank-and-file caucus-goers, but at the most basic level, they are based on the gut feelings and instincts of our writers, who have watched the race unfold here from the beginning.
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