Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism (https://iowawatch.org/tag/ted-cruz/)
Iowa Democratic Party leaders are trying to fix problems party members saw in the 2016 presidential precinct caucuses, which had their fair share of overloaded rooms, missed opportunities for some registered Democrats to participate fully and coin flips to determine county convention delegate commitments.
One of the more dramatic suggestions for the Iowa Democratic Party’s next presidential precinct caucuses is letting people who cannot attend still register their preference for president. Whether that becomes the game plan for the 2020 caucuses is to be determined.
It’s been a month since Iowans caucused. How do Iowa’s results look now that more than a quarter of the country has indicated its presidential preference?
New Hampshire and Iowa set the stage for passionate voter participation during the nation’s first presidential primary and first presidential precinct caucuses. Chalk it up to hotly contested nomination campaigns in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Maps provide a glance at the 2016 Caucus returns. A comparison of the Democratic votes in 2008 and 2016 show little consistency with counties won or lost by Clinton in the two caucuses.
Hillary Clinton came to Iowa in 2016 to exorcise what plagued her surprise 2008 failure to win the Democratic presidential precinct caucuses but end up with a fight on her hands. Bernie Sanders is making a strong push to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
I went to the Republican caucus at the DoubleTree Convention Complex in Cedar Rapids preferring Rand Paul, but on a mission to prevent Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination for president.
Ted Cruz pulled out a win but but Donald Trump and Marco Rubio could claim wins, too, for Republicans while Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were virtually tied in the Iowa presidential precinct caucuses marked by huge turnouts Monday night.
Steve Reed remembers a different kind of presidential campaign from when he was young. They did not last as long as they do now, the Carlisle Republican said.