For those of you sitting around twiddling your thumbs waiting for the Iowa results, and entertaining thoughts of moving your family there by 2012, The Hawkeye Cauci Primer, over at Human Events, is an interesting article that breaks down what really happens at a caucus in Iowa.
For the Republicans, caucuses are a lot like a regular primary election.
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For the Democrats, the caucuses combine the features of marriage counseling, encounter groups, and the occasional barroom brawl. The Democrat caucus is more complicated procedurally but in some respects identical to that of the Republican caucus.
It’s an interesting read if you are into that procedural stuff.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:58 am
I would recommend reading instead:
http://www.history.com/minisit.....i_id=57351
The only thing this website got wrong is Bush beating Gore in 2000. Don’t get me started…
Ah, if we only elected “uncommitted” in 1972 and 1976. I say screw Iowa…let them eat corn…they suck at picking winners. I remember watching the caucuses live on C-SPAN one year…it was ridculous. They should just use Instant Runoff Voting instead of the whole “viable” re-grouping nonsense. Iowa is all about expectations anyway. Things look bad for Romney and Edwards so far this year IMO.