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Article: Iowa caucuses starting move in election
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- December 4, 2007
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Monica Kiley, Linsey Lubinus And Jordan Lampe
University Wire
12-04-2007
(Iowa State Daily) (U-WIRE) AMES, Iowa -- Editor's note: This is part two in a six-part series about the Iowa caucuses and why they are important.
This year, Iowa has retained its first-in-the-nation status in an extremely front-loaded schedule, causing some to wonder if it will stay as significant as in the past.
The caucuses are the first step toward picking delegates to national conventions where the parties pick their candidate for the presidency.
Iowa's major political parties have held caucuses every two years for more than a century, except for a short period when the state flirted with a presidential preference ...