caucuses

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/4/20
  

  Torched sheds and ‘snap’ votes: The Iowa caucuses have been a hot mess for a century

  By the turn of the century, political leaders from opposing parties grew weary of the shenanigans and more or less began begging for ballot systems — not in tweet storms, but by writing letters to their local newspapers.

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• 1/19/20
  

  Jimmy Carter and The Myth That Gave the Iowa Caucuses Their Political Power

  by Wallace Hettle

  Carter focused on the state and did well in the caucuses, which set him, an unknown, on the path to the nomination. Presidential hopefuls have flocked to the state ever since. However, Carter’s story is not quite that simple.