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Lizo politics, Vox, what's a caucus?

At a basic level, it's a meeting that a political party has and in the specific context of this

election, it's a meeting that the Democrats are having to decide which nominee they'd

like to ultimately represent them.

All right, that sounds fair.

What's an Iowa?

So, Iowa is one of the few remaining states to still use a caucus in the way that they

pick the nominee.

And the mechanics of how that works is very interesting and actually quite fun to observe.

So a group of people will get into a room.

This is going to happen in places like school cafeterias, people's living rooms, community

centers.

And they'll actually physically cluster into different places in that room based on which

candidate they support.

So if you're trying to get a visual of what that could look like, you might have a group

of people who like Biden on one side of the room.

And then a group of Bernie Sanders supporters in a corner of the room.

After people cluster, the person who is in charge of each of these locations will ultimately

count how many people are in each of these groups.

And in order for a candidate to be considered viable, they need to reach at least 15% of

the vote at that point in the evening.

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