Will Democrats and Republicans Split Caucus Dates?

The Republican Party of Iowa is set to announce that it has set the date of its Caucuses for January 3. Will the Iowa Democratic Party follow suit?

Over the past few months, it has generally sounded like they wanted to keep their date in line with the Republicans. Their statement tonight? Pretty noncommittal:

The Iowa Democratic Party is planning for a January caucus that is run professionally and with integrity. We will decide our caucus date based ultimately on what is best for the people of Iowa and the Democratic Party.

State Chair Brennan, the State Central Committee, Governor Culver and Senator Harkin will continue to work with the pre-window states and the Democratic National Committee to determine a date that maintains Iowa’s important role as the First-in-the-Nation Caucus.

Not much new information there, but we can assume this means that Caucusing on the same day as the Republicans is not going to be the only factor that goes into the decision.