Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before the ink had dried on the final tallies of yesterday's vote, Americans--from voter action groups to political science classes--had voiced their contempt and outrage for the Iowa caucus...
...system have their merits. On the surface, it seems illogical for such a small population--about 220,000 participating voters in a state with 3 million residents--so apparently unrepresentative of the national constituency--to have such a large impact on the nominating process. To make the contest a caucus, in which "horse-trading" and political bargaining can obscure public opinion, seems even more nonsensical...
...before Americans condemn Iowa and its caucus, they should take a closer look at this week's results. While the final vote had its share of surprises, there is no reason to believe that the Iowa caucuses have single-handedly selected the next Democratic and Republican nominees...
...need hardly point out that to speak of Gary Hart's "passing" due to his not winning the Iowa caucus today is ludicrous. He is running without money behind three candidates who have demonstrated, granted, "political strength" among the liberal establishment and interest groups who influence the caucus's outcome. Walter Mondale did this, too, in 1984; but in 1984 Gary Hart was a better candidate for president. Since then, it may be true, he has "made mistakes," but he has also done more homework. His knowledge of such issues as defense and education reform, programmatic foreign policy, and national...
...Democratic party irrelevant in presidential politics. The arguments of such critics, however, are moronic. But all these arguments, that of Mr. Brazatis, that Hart cannot win because he simply cannot win, because "we (we who? we wisecracking Crimson editors?) have already decided," before the results of even the first caucus are in, is, to my knowledge, the most moronic argument against Senator Hart this campaign has yet recorded. It seems, in the end, that to any writer who wants so maliciously to help a thinker of national importance to his "political grave," we can only say, "Have a vengeful...