Understanding the Iowa Caucuses
Today is the first official electoral event of the 2012 election.
Voters will gather and select the candidate they support.
Iowans have voted first in the nation since 1992. No candidate who has finished worse than third in the Iowa Caucuses has every gone on to win the presidential election.
Voters will gather and select the candidate they support.
Iowans have voted first in the nation since 1992. No candidate who has finished worse than third in the Iowa Caucuses has every gone on to win the presidential election.
From Wikipedia: "The Iowa caucuses are an electoral event in which residents of the U.S. state of Iowa meet in precinct caucuses in all of Iowa's 1,774 precincts and elect delegates to the corresponding county conventions. There are 99 counties in Iowa and thus 99 conventions.
“These county conventions then select delegates for both Iowa's Congressional District Convention and theState Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nominating conventions (the national conventions).
“The 2012 Iowa Caucuses are scheduled to take place on January 3, 2012.
“The Iowa caucuses are noteworthy for the amount of media attention they receive during U.S. presidential election years. Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States.
“Although only about one percent of the nation's delegates are chosen by the Iowa State Convention, the Iowa caucuses have served as an early indication of which candidates for president might win the nomination of their political party at that party's national convention.”
