How does it work in details?
How is it different from other primaries?
I understood something didn’t work, what?
I understood it changed since the last elections. How?
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First off the primaries is not an official part of the presidential election but rather an internal voting within the political parties for which candidates they should support. So it does not have to be a secret, private or democratic election. Each states political party is free to hold the primaries as they want. The concept of a caucus is that you gather together your parties voters in a neighborhood into a caucus and then you discuss who should be president. These discussions means no votes are private and even allows open corruption to happen. In Iowa there is also the old system of voting for deligates that were in place before modern communications. So each caucus will send a number of deligates to the county who will then discuss again to decide which deligates they will send to the state who eventually will decide who they will send to the national congression. This means that it is fully possible to be the most popular candidate by the number of voters but still not get many deligates. What is different this year is that they will publish the results from each stage of the caucus. Iowa does not have much direct influence on the national level but because they are first they will have a big impact on the rest of the primary election campaign. Releasing the results from the initial votes is a better indicator of popularity then the final results. However there were some issues with the numbers so they have not been released yet. It can be technical issues or a deliberate attempt to manipulate the numbers.
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