Word: caucus
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even The New York Times couldn’t help but be impressed. In October, Times national political correspondent Adam Nagourney, described VoteGopher.com as “unusually extensive” on The Caucus blog. But Ruben remains humble about his achievement...
It’s a particularly exciting moment in the American election cycle: the Iowa Caucus is less than a month away, and the primary races on both sides are heating up. At Harvard, signs of Obamamania and Huckapalooza are everywhere. Sort of. To be sure, our various species of political animal have come out of hibernation: the detached prognosticators, the spit-shined climbers, the smug ignoramuses. The College’s political energy has actually been kind of underwhelming. And some members of the Class of 1967 are hopping mad about it. They?...
...Campaign staffers, of course, can be found all over the country. But thanks to the unusually complicated nature of the caucuses (which involves not a quick trip to the voting booth but an entire evening spent at a precinct caucus with complicated procedures) and the unusually keen participation of Iowans, the grassroots campaign here is longer and more intense than almost anywhere else. "Often times, the questions from 12-year-olds in Iowa are far more intelligent and relevant than a lot I've gotten from adults all across the country," says Carter Wamp, 23, of Nashville, a staffer...
...crop of staffers, all eyes are on January 3, after which most of them will pack up and move on - maybe to South Carolina, Nevada, Florida or Michigan. Right now, they're busy organizing campaign events and flushing out potential supporters; schooling themselves and voters on the intricacies of caucus math; coaxing Iowans to leave their comfy homes on a winter night to caucus in a school gym or church basement...
Some of the most interesting things to observe as we near the Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary are voters’ opinions on which candidates are most “electable...