On caucus night itself, she expects all 6,000 hotel rooms within a 10-mile radius of Des Moines to be filled.

And on caucus night only 75,000 -just 14 percent - of the state's 534,000 registered Democrats went to the precinct meeting places.

Each man was up against a well-financed front-runner who could marshal interest groups and local politicians to bring out a big vote on caucus night.

In what was almost an aside, but not quite, he called for a "hardy band of brave souls" to turn out and vote for him on caucus night, Jan. 24.

In other words, you tend to get the radicals and the one-issue activists on caucus night.

Some 200,000 Iowans may turn out on a caucus night.

The statewide turnout on caucus night next year will probably not exceed 100,000.

The December Iowa Poll showed that 60 percent of likely caucus-goers were undecided and "could be persuaded" before caucus night on Jan. 3.

But you don't want to build them up so high that come caucus night, people are disappointed.

Today's the day for official totals from caucus night to be certified - and the Iowa Republican party has released this statement: