As coverage from Iowa begins tonight, the CNN Politics page will unveil an interactive map of Iowa that will break down the caucus results by county. Additionally, the map will profile each candidate’s voting base by age group, gender and county. This interactive will be used for all of the upcoming primaries as well.
The Iowa caucus results will live stream online and across all mobile platforms. Additionally, the latest election stories and opinion pieces can be found online, on the mobile web and through the CNN apps for iPhone, iPad, Android phone and Android tablet.
Real-time coverage from Iowa:
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Editorial highlights include:
CNN Opinion: Roland Martin refutes the conventional wisdom that a candidate has to take Iowa (and later New Hampshire) to win. He says candidates should not be discouraged, since there are 48 other states to keep in mind. Alex Castellanos talks about Rick Santorum’s rise in the polls, and says Santorum has a fighting chance at receiving the nomination, if he performs well in Iowa. LZ Granderson references a poll indicating that 70% of the US is ready for the 2012 election to be over, and says he too is not looking forward to the next 10 months of ads and pitches. Jacob Soboroff writes an op-ed explaining why we vote on Tuesdays and proposes that the US change the law to move voting to the weekend.
CNN Money: profile on Newton, Iowa, the former headquarters for Maytag, and the story of how the town diversified its economy after Maytag was sold to Whirlpool and eliminated nearly 10% of Newton’s jobs.
CNN Video: video explaining the power of Iowa’s evangelicals and how the candidates have responded to this voting bloc.
CNN iReport: the network’s global participatory news community, taking submissions related to the Iowa caucus, some of which will be shown across CNN.com and broadcast on CNN.