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...Candidates plan campaign strategy around the Iowa caucus--it is part...
...Iowa Caucus--a national presidential campaign institution since 1972--will take place in about 2,100 locations across the state. About 200,000 voters are expected to participate...
Bush's closest competitor on a national scale, Arizona senator John R. McCain, has largely ignored the caucus, and has been relegated to the third tier of candidates along with Alan L. Keyes '72 and Gary Bauer, who have four percent of voters' support between them. McCain's decision not to support ethanol subsidies, which Iowa farmers rely on, has made him unpopular in the state, though the candidate claims the subsidy is unnecessarily protectionist. Bypassing Iowa has allowed McCain to spend his time and money in New Hampshire, where most polls show him tied with Bush...
McCain is operating on the opposite premise that the Iowa caucus has little influence on the rest of the primary campaign, and that the New Hampshire primary is a better indicator of overall strength. His case study would be George Bush, who in 1980 won the Iowa caucus but lost the presidential nomination, and in 1988 lost the caucus and won the nomination...
Evidence for the "bounce" theory can be gathered from the 1980 caucus, where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.) got 31.2 percent of the vote in Iowa against Carter's 56 percent, and Carter went on to take New Hampshire by a wide margin. On the other hand, in the same year Bush won the Iowa caucus, the eventual Republican nominee (and subsequent president), Ronald W. Reagan, took New Hampshire only eight days later...