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Jimmy Carter can be thanked -if that is the word-for Iowa's- prominence. Nobody paid much attention to the state's early and unusual caucus system until Jimmy Who? decided to blitz the state in 1976 and thus get a jump on his opponents. The press, awakened to this event perhaps by Carter himself, proclaimed the Georgian's Iowa results a surprising victory, and a bandwagon started rolling. Actually, Carter did not win the Iowa caucuses four years ago at all: "Uncommitted" did. Carter got 29.1% of the delegates, Senator Birch Bayh 11.4%, former Senator Fred...
...system is probably the closest to the grass roots that the mind of man could devise. The 2,531 precinct caucuses that will be held in private homes, public halls, churches, fire stations and schoolrooms throughout the state are only the first step in a four-stage sequence that eventually selects Iowa's delegates to the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Independents can participate in either party's caucus...
...voter has to be highly motivated to leave his home, brave the inevitable snowstorm and then spend hours wrangling with his neighbors. While nearly 30% of a party's registered voters turn out for primaries in other states, only 10% are expected to show up for the Iowa caucuses, about 50,000 Democrats and 45,000 Republicans. Says Ralph Brown, former executive director of the Iowa Republican Central Committee: "Going to the polls doesn't take much of a commitment. Going to a caucus does...
Since his party was turned out of office by Joe Clark's Progressive Conservatives six months ago, Pierre Elliott Trudeau has rarely sported a boutonniere. But as he addressed the weekly caucus of Liberal Party M.P.s in Ottawa last week, a bright yellow rose was attached to his lapel. In a halting voice, Trudeau began to read from a prepared statement: "I am announcing today that after spending nearly twelve years as leader of the Liberal Party, I am stepping down." Then he broke down in tears, explaining: "Well, you always knew I was a softy." That...
...school board, built up a neighborhood base, and ran as a progressive candidate for state assembly. She lost narrowly, but friends and political allies--including DSOC members--convinced her to run for city council in 1971. She won, and is now on an active part of a small progressive caucus on the council fighting the policies of Mayor Ed Koch, "probably the consummate best example of the drift to the right...