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	Iowa caucus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since 1976, the Iowa caucus has been the first indication of which candidate for President of the United States would win the nomination of his or her political party at that party's national convention.
		While the Iowa caucus has been the first such caucus each year in the United States for a century, it came to national attention only in 1976, when obscure Georgia governor Jimmy Carter won the most votes at the Democratic caucus.
		The Iowa caucus is less-binding than the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary because Iowan caucus-goers elect delegates to county conventions, who, in turn, elect delegates to district and state conventions where, ultimately, the national convention delegates are selected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iowa_caucus (1350 words)

	2004 Iowa Precinct Caucuses
		Iowa's first in the nation precinct caucuses are a function of the political parties.
		Iowa's first in the nation place in the presidential nomination process came about in the late 1960s and early 1970s at a time of opposition to the Vietnam War.
		In both parties, a caucus participant must be a resident of the precinct and be at least 18 years old as of November 2, 2004.
	www.johnson-county.com /auditor/voter/caucus04.htm (1108 words)

	2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States, the 2004 Iowa Democratic caucuses (held January 19) were the first major test of some of the leading contenders for the Democratic Party's nomination as its candidate for the 2004 presidential election.
		Besides the 45 delegates assigned through the caucus system, Iowa has another 11 delegates, 10 of which are assigned by the state party and one is elected at large at the state convention.
		Dean's aggressive post-caucus speech to his supporters, culminating with a hoarse scream that came to be known as the Dean Scream, was widely shown and mocked on television, although the effect on his campaign was unclear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2004_Iowa_Democratic_caucuses (821 words)

	Iowa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iowa is bordered by Minnesota on the north; Nebraska and South Dakota on the west; Missouri on the south; and Wisconsin and Illinois on the east.
		The Farm Crisis of the 1980's saw a major decline of family farms in Iowa and around the Midwest, and it was marked by a sharp drop in the state's rural population.
		The caucus, held in January of the election year, involves people gathering in homes or public places and choosing their candidate, rather than casting secret ballots, as is done in a primary election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iowa (2427 words)

	Iowa Caucus Project 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The word caucus is a North American Indian word, thought to be of Algonquin origin, meaning a gathering of the ruling tribal chiefs.
		On caucus night, Iowans gather by party preference to elect delegates to the 99 county conventions.
		The results of this caucus activity on both the Democratic and Republican sides are not binding on the elected delegates, but the delegates usually feel obligated to follow the wishes expressed by the caucus-goers.
	www.iowacaucus.org /faqs.html (540 words)

	Linkmeister: Caucus v. Primary
		Iowa has held caucuses every two years since the early 19th century, before it was even a state.
		Iowa leaders chose to hold caucuses instead of primaries because of the active, grass-roots participation the caucus system embodies, said Peverill Squire, professor of political science at the University of Iowa.
		Iowa briefly considered switching to a primary and actually held one in 1913 before returning to the caucuses in 1916.
	www.linkmeister.com /blog/archives/000741.html (385 words)

	CyberCaucus: The Republican Caucus Process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The caucus, held every two years, is not only the "grass roots" meeting for the party faithful but since 1963 has been the point at which delegates to the county convention are elected.
		The Republican caucus straw poll is used as a barometer of presidential strength among Iowa Republicans likely to vote in the November general election.
		The Republican Party of Iowa's Constitution states that in order to participate in a caucus, one must be a Republican, be eligible to vote in the next election and be a resident of that precinct.
	www.drake.edu /public/rproc.html (412 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| Campaign 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At a caucus, people go to a meeting where they start the process of nominating presidential candidates by expressing an initial preference for a candidate.
		In Iowa, caucus-goers elect delegates to county conventions, who, in turn, elect delegates to district and state conventions where national convention delegates are selected.
		For Iowa to change the caucuses to a primary would be a violation of that agreement and trigger a feud with New Hampshire.
	desmoinesregister.com /extras/politics/caucus2004/caucusfaq.html (1377 words)

	Iowa Caucuses
		The Iowa caucuses are the first step in the nominating processes of the Democratic and Republican parties.
		The Iowa precinct caucuses came to the front of the presidential nominating process in 1972 as a result of changes in the Democratic party rules.
		Because of this first status, Iowa receives candidate visits and media attention vastly out of proportion to the number of delegates it sends to each of the major party conventions (a little more than one percent of the delegates at either convention are from Iowa).
	www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/chrniowa.html (389 words)

	Iowa caucus: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A caucus is most generally defined as being a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement....
		A primary election is one in which a political party selects a candidate for a later election by all registered voters in that jurisdiction (nominating primary...
		The Iowa caucus is less-binding than the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary New Hampshire primary quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/io/iowa_caucus.htm (2068 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Q&A: Iowa caucuses
		A caucus is a meeting and one is held in each of the 1,997 precincts or voting districts in Iowa.
		Iowa is not a typical state, being small, mid-western and mainly rural with a strong liberal streak so it does not reflect the national picture.
		Iowa has favoured the caucus system as it leads to more contact between candidates and voters.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3395851.stm (668 words)

	RhodesCook.com -- Iowa Caucus Wrapup
		Iowa is a caucus state, where organization is rewarded and turnouts are comparatively low.
		It was the only one of Iowa’s larger counties that voted for Ronald Reagan over Bush’s father in 1980, and for Pat Buchanan over Dole in 1996.
		Bauer’s trio were clustered in rural northwest Iowa, with the largest being Sioux County, an overwhelmingly Republican bastion with a Dutch Calvinist heritage.
	www.rhodescook.com /analysis/presidential_primaries/iowa/wrapup.html (876 words)

	Howstuffworks "How do caucuses work?"
		In Iowa, the caucuses themselves are local party precinct meetings where registered Republicans and Democrats gather, discuss the candidates and vote for their candidate of choice for their party's nomination (Iowa caucuses actually occur every two years - in non-presidential-election years, participants generally discuss party platform issues).
		In both parties, the purpose of the caucus vote is to select delegates to attend a county convention -- each caucus sends a certain number of delegates, based on the population it represents.
		In a typical caucus, registered democrats gather at the precinct meeting places (there are 1,993 precincts statewide), supporters for each candidate have a chance to make their case, and then the participants gather into groups supporting particular candidates (undecided voters also cluster into a group).
	people.howstuffworks.com /question721.htm (1028 words)

	style.org > Scaling Counties in a Checkerboard State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Iowa is an interesting state because its 99 counties are all roughly the same size and shape.
		Published maps of the Iowa caucus results tend to use a county map marked with different colors for each candidate.
		Scaling all 99 counties in a similar way produces the revised county map of Iowa at right, shown at a scale of roughly 4 green pixels per state delegate (the enlarged map is more accurate, at roughly 25 pixels per delegate).
	www.style.org /iowacaucus (1216 words)

	www.GovExec.com - Iowa caucus results leave Democratic race wide open (1/20/04)
		It became apparent over the last weekend that many undecided Democrats were breaking for Kerry and Edwards, and, indeed, the news media sponsored-"entrance poll" of caucus attendees arriving to vote indicated that four out of 10 Democrats voting made their decision in the last week and among those voters, Edwards and Kerry were tied.
		Historically, Iowa caucus campaigns have been relatively clean affairs with few negative attack ads or mailings, but this time the Dean and Gephardt campaigns in particular went after each other with a vengeance, with Kerry joining in to a certain extent as well.
		It's true that Iowa is a state with a far older than normal electorate, more rural and small town, and, to be blunt, less yuppie than where Dean does much better, but he still dropped in the closing weeks of the campaign.
	www.govexec.com /dailyfed/0104/012004njcom1.htm (920 words)

	TheBostonChannel.com - Politics - Iowa Caucus Win Not A Guarantee, Pundits Say
		Iowa caucus results are often significant because of the way the media covers them, Keyssar said.
		This year, because of the high press scrutiny, the Iowa caucus may have a bigger impact in the mind of the public, according to Keyssar.
		The Iowa caucus became more significant in the early 1970s because of the turmoil in the late 1960s at the nomination of Hubert Humphrey, who did not win any important primaries.
	www.thebostonchannel.com /politics/2778764/detail.html (1081 words)

	DesMoinesRegister.com \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		President Bush is scheduled to return to Iowa next week, ending a 17-month absence as the fight for this key piece of the election-year battleground intensifies.
		Iowa's 2004 election-year landscape will be dramatically different from two years ago, when the fall ballot offered some of the nation's most competitive races for U.S. House and Senate.
		Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack has become engulfed in the high-intensity, high-profile and highly speculative orgy of opinion about who Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry will pick as his running mate on the Democratic presidential ticket.
	miva.dmregister.com /miva/cgi-bin/miva?news/package.mv+Campaign_2004 (454 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Caucus-night vote-swapping could tilt Iowa
		DES MOINES -- For the first time in decades, a quirk in the Iowa nominating contest on Jan. 19 -- vote-swapping on caucus night -- could determine the outcome of the Democratic presidential contest here, according to advisers for several campaigns who are mapping strategies to swing stray votes in the final hours.
		Advisers expect the media-run entrance polls, conducted at entrances to caucus sites, to be nearly as meaningless as the public polls that are conducted in the days beforehand, because of the large number of undecided voters, the quirky nature of the caucuses, and the role that vote-swapping could play.
		According to internal Iowa polling conducted by the campaigns, Dean is in the lead, closely followed by Gephardt of Missouri.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/01/09/caucus_night_vote_swapping_could_tilt_iowa (1027 words)

	cbs2chicago.com - Kerry Wins Iowa Caucus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		According to caucus entrance polls, Kerry won with 35 percent of the vote, followed by Edwards with 26, Dean with 20 and Gephardt with 11 percent.
		According to caucus entrance polls, Kerry's win was fueled by a late surge in the campaign, as well as concerns among voters about health care and the economy.
		But while 75 percent of caucus attendees said they disapprove of the U.S. decision to go to war with Iraq, voters were not citing the issue as the most important in deciding their vote today, a clear advantage for Kerry.
	cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_019124950.html (844 words)

	Why the Iowa caucus comes first. By Brendan I. Koerner
		In the late 1960s, the Iowa Democratic Party ruled that at least 30 days had to pass between the caucus and the district conventions (for which the caucuses select delegates), plus another 30 between the district conventions and the state convention (where Iowa's delegates are officially selected).
		To preserve its kingmaker role, as well as the economic boon of hosting thousands of campaign workers and journalists, the Iowa legislature added a section to the state code that mandates that the caucus be held eight days prior to any other caucus or primary.
		But lots of other states are openly jealous of Iowa's privileged status and gripe that it's wrong to place such power in the hands of a state whose population (94 percent white) and economy (primarily agricultural) don't square with the rest of the nation.
	www.slate.com /id/2094007 (661 words)

	CNN.com 2004 Primaries
		Of the 45 pledged delegates, 29 are district-level delegates, 10 are at-large delegates, and six are "party leader and elected official" (PLEO) delegates.
		Instead of releasing caucus vote totals, the Iowa Democratic Party releases a total indicating the number of delegates to the state convention each candidate will receive.
		Because of the nature of the Iowa caucuses, these polls are conducted as voters enter a caucus venue and are known as entrance polls.
	www.cnn.com /ELECTION/2004/primaries/pages/states/IA (256 words)

	Iowa Caucus Diary
		Also at this meeting we had a mock caucus and the very confusing "caucus math" was explained.
		After introducing ourselves to the caucus chairperson, all the precinct captains from the respective campaigns were assigned specific areas of the gym to set up their camps.
		The total number of caucus goers, or as it is officially called, "the count," was announced.
	www.thezephyr.com /iowadiary.htm (2445 words)

	ThisNation.com--What is a "caucus"?
		Iowa's process for choosing between presidential candidates is unique among the fifty United States.
		Each caucus selects delegates to send to each of the 99 county conventions, which are held in March.
		First, Iowa is largely viewed as a "bellwether" state because it represents a cross-section of America in terms of ideology and party preference.
	www.thisnation.com /question/013.html (519 words)

	Kerry wins Iowa caucuses - Politics - MSNBC.com
		John Kerry of Massachusetts won the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses Monday night, completing an improbable charge in the final days of the first important test of the campaign season.
		Once they arrived at the caucus sites, voters broke up into groups, their numbers counted and then recounted as some candidates did not get enough votes to go forward.
		Iowa Secretary of State Chester J. Culver had predicted that turnout could top the record of 125,000 set in 1988, but the Democratic Party estimated turnout Monday night at 110,000.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3999491 (1299 words)

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