Democrats in Iowa demanded reform of the state caucus system - to move power away from party bosses and more into the hands of grassroots activists.
States can hold either primaries or caucuses as part of the presidential nomination process. Both processes allocate delegates based on the percentage of the vote received by candidates. At the national party convention, the candidate with the most delegates becomes the party's nominee. Caucuses ar...
Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine was widely considered to be the front-runner. Muskie received the highest percentage of the vote in Iowa that year, but his challenger, Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota, made a very strong second-place showing. McGovern's ...
In the earlier contests, most states award delegates proportionally to the percentage of vote that candidates won either statewide or in individual congressional districts. Some states require candidates to reach a certain threshold of support for any delegates which can be as high as 20%, according...
Greenberg Call, who was an Iowa Caucus organizer for Harris' primary campaign, previously told POLITICO that she was optimistic about Harris becoming the nominee instead of Biden, believing that the former California senator would take a harder line on Israel. “We also cannot win the election ag...
Miller-Meeks defeated Bohannan in the 2022 general election, 53% to 47%. Voters in the 1st District preferred Trump over Biden in 2020 by a margin of about 3 percentage points. In the sprawling 4th Congressional District in western and northwestern Iowa, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra seeks...
1 of 10 | With the Iowa caucuses behind them, GOP candidates are preparing for the New Hampshire primary and working to get voters on their side. (Jan. 16) 2 of 10 | Nick Zaharias of Derry, N.H., a public witness, loads a test ballot into a vote counting machine while ...
The margin of error for the poll — which does not reflect the electorate as a whole — is plus or minus 5.3 percentage points. The results diverge sharply from the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. A flash poll conducted immediately following that debate showed ...
We’re one year out from the official start of the 2016 caucus and primary season. On Jan. 18, 2016, men and women will gather in churches, living rooms and school gymnasiums across Iowa to vote in the Democratic and Republican caucuses. So, where do the potential candidates stack up ...
And at this point in the 2020 Democratic primary campaign, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was garnering just 8 percent in polls of Iowa; come February, he won 25 percent of the popular vote in the caucuses.To account for this uncertainty, I wrote a crude statistical ...