Iowa Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Presidential caucus=== {{Main|Iowa caucuses}} The state gets considerable attention every four years because the [[Iowa caucus]], gatherings of voters to select delegates to the state conventions, is the first presidential caucus in the country. The caucuses, held in January or February of the election year, involve people gathering in homes or public places and choosing their candidates, rather than casting secret ballots as is done in a [[presidential primary]] election.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=James Q. Lynch |url=http://www.iowacaucus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071119/IOWACAUCUS/71119004 |title=What happens at a caucus? |publisher=iowacaucus.com | date=November 19, 2007|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222142101/http://www.iowacaucus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071119%2FIOWACAUCUS%2F71119004 |archive-date=December 22, 2007 }}</ref> Along with the [[New Hampshire primary]] the following week, Iowa's caucuses have become the starting points for choosing the two major-party candidates for president.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donovan |first1=Todd |last2=Hunsaker |first2=Rob |date=January 2009 |title=Beyond expectations: effects of early elections in U.S. presidential nomination contests |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract |journal=PS: Political Science & Politics |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=45β52 |doi=10.1017/S1049096509090040 |s2cid=42839320 |access-date=January 30, 2016 |archive-date=July 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715203811/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract |url-status=live }}</ref> The national and international media give Iowa and New Hampshire extensive attention, which gives Iowa voters leverage.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Donovan |first1=Todd |last2=Redlawsk |first2=David |last3=Tolbert |first3=Caroline |date=September 2014 |title=The 2012 Iowa Republican Caucus and Its Effects on the Presidential Nomination Contest |journal=Presidential Studies Quarterly |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=447β466 |doi=10.1111/psq.12132 }}</ref> In 2007 presidential campaign spending was the seventh highest in the country.<ref>{{Citation|last=Swenson|first=David|title=The Economic Impact of the Iowa Caucus: Gauging the Worth of Its First-in-the-Nation Position?|date=April 2008|url=https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/research/webpapers/paper_12911.pdf|access-date=April 22, 2020|archive-date=April 4, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404001453/http://www2.econ.iastate.edu/research/webpapers/paper_12911.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page