Live Blogging the Iowa Caucuses January 3, 2012, 6:03 pm Welcome to FiveThirtyEight's live blog of the Iowa caucuses. The real action will not get underway until 8 p.m. New York time, when caucuses convene around the state - and it is likely to be at least another hour or so after that before we start seeing the first results. However, we will be entertaining you with various statistically-driven observations before then, including data from entrance polls. My updates will appear below, and also on the live Iowa caucus dashboard, which brings together updates and analysis from me and the Times political unit. Live Dashboard