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...Admittedly, the Iowa caucus is the most painstaking, complicated form of democracy to exist outside a campus women's collective. Instead of walking into a voting booth, pulling the top lever for President and randomly yanking the rest of them like you're supposed to, the caucus is a three-hour Monday-night political dorkfest reserved for the kinds of people who get psyched about jury duty. In 2000, only 61,000 Iowans showed up to vote, and it's not as if there's a lot to do in Iowa in January...
...explain how it all works, Iowa Secretary of State Chet Culver is going around the state holding practice caucuses. At his workshop last Tuesday at the library in Clive, a suburb seven miles west of Des Moines, about 50 people showed up, several of them young enough to be my parents. Most of these folks already knew how caucuses work and just wanted a refresher course. Clive needs to get itself a bowling alley...
...committee chair. Then caucusgoers will debate and vote on issues they'd like to see on the party's platform at the convention. Finally, the people at the Democratic caucus make speeches for all the Democratic candidates, including Undecided. Undecided, by the way, has taken the Democratic Iowa caucus several times, as in 1972 and 1976. If Confused were a candidate, it would win even more often...
...ultimately garnered a seventh-place finish. He won two straight decisions, his second round victory impressively coming over Pittsburgh’s No. 15 Ron Tarquinio, 3-2. In the next round, he dropped to the field’s top seed, No. 6 Dylan Long from Northern Iowa, 10-5, but later went on to pin Illinois’s Michael Martin in 2:57 to secure his top-10 finish...
...begins, it isn't long until the Iowa caucuses and the start of the election season. With passionate feelings on both sides of the political aisle, this year promises to see many twists and turns before election day, Nov. 2. We enter the year with Howard Dean as the Democratic frontrunner, but with eight other Democratic candidates vying for the nomination to take on a president who is setting records for fundraising, anything could happen. What are your predictions for this political season? What issues and events will take the country by surprise? Will a third party play a role...