#MayorCheat? More like the mayor to beat! After an entire day of ire directed toward Pete Buttigieg for his preemptive declaration of victory in the Iowa caucuses, the foible-ridden Iowa Democratic Party published 62% of precinct results, showing the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor hauling in the most delegates so far.

Although Buttigieg won 1,000 fewer raw votes than Bernie Sanders in reporting precincts, he bested the primary pack in share of state delegates, with 26.9% to Sanders’s 25.1%. But more remarkable than his delegate share is how he won them over — and perhaps more importantly, how he compared with the other moderates.