The Iowa caucuses are an electoral event in which residents of the U.S. state of Iowa meet in precinct caucuses in all of Iowa’s 69 precincts and elect delegates to the corresponding county conventions. There are 99 counties in Iowa, and thus there are 99 conventions. These county conventions then select delegates for both Iowa’s Congressional District Convention and the State Convention, which eventually choose the delegates for the presidential nominating conventions.

The Iowa caucuses are noteworthy for the amount of media attention they receive during U.S. presidential election years. Since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first major electoral event of the nominating process for President of the United States. Although only about 1% of the nation’s delegates are chosen by the Iowa State Convention (25 Republican delegates in 2012, assigned proportionately), the Iowa caucuses have served as an early indication of which candidates for president might win the nomination

The Iowa caucuses operate very differently from the more common primary election used by most other states (see U.S. presidential primary). The caucuses are generally defined as “gatherings of neighbors.” Rather than going to polls and casting ballots, Iowans gather at a set location in each of Iowa’s 1,682 precincts. Typically, these meetings occur in schools, churches, public libraries and even individuals’ houses. The caucuses are held every two years, but the ones that receive national attention are the presidential preference caucuses held every four years. In addition to the voting and the presidential preference choices, caucus-goers begin the process of writing their parties’ platforms by introducing resolutions.

The Iowa caucus has not produced a winner in the last two election cycles (2008 and 2012).  In 2008, Mike Huckabee won and in 2012 Rick Santorum won.  It looks like the Iowa caucus is a process for the politicians to get together and gather their thoughts to see how they want to run the election in 2016.

One thing we need to change is to change the voting age to 21 in the USA.   A person’s brain is not fully developed until he/she is 24-25.  We are allowing children to vote before they are really mentally developed and it is causing problems in this country. The children are being brain-washed by our liberal schools and liberal professors and are tearing up the country by their inexperience.  If you watch Watter’s world on Bill O’Reilly when these students in college are being interviewed – it is scary – their minds are void of any historical facts.   I also feel that same way about children going to a war zone.  This should not happen until they are at least 21.  They could join the military at an earlier age but could not enter the fighting until they are 21 years of age.

Is this the real reason this caucus is held:

The 2008 Iowa caucuses took place January 3 at 7 p.m. CT.   Candidates spent tens of millions of dollars on local television advertisements  and hundreds of paid staff in dozens of field offices Barack Obama (D) and Mike Huckabee (R) were the eventual winners.

As usual, l it is all about money (tens of millions of dollars just on local television and advertisements)  for the media fat cats.  Why don’t we try something different – rather than give it to the media fat cats – pay down the debt by making the fat cats donate all monies to the debt.  We need to do something different – we are just making the rich – richer – by allowing them to come in and let them make all of this money on our backs. Then, they manipulate these functions so the person who wins is who these fatcats want to back to line their pockets.

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