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What is the Iowa Caucus?

Posted by on Feb 6, 2020 in Current Events
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Iowa is always a focal point at the start of a primary season. This year it was even more of a spotlight. Credit: Rainer Lesniewski/Shutterstock.com

This week’s story update on Election Central teaches you about the Iowa caucus and how it works.

For the past year–and more!–the nation has watched while Democrats have vied to become the candidate who will take on the Republican nominee (presumably, Donald Trump) in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The pool of people to watch has grown and shrunk as potential candidates threw their hat into the ring while others stepped back out of the limelight. In fact, the October Democratic debate was the most crowded presidential debate stage in American history. All of it has been leading up to this week: the critical and much-anticipated Iowa caucus.

To learn more about this story, click here to visit the Election Central Web site and read the full posting.

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