[EL] ELB News and Commentary 1/5/20

[Paul Gronke]

Readers may be interested to know that a lot of political scientists are converging on the University of Iowa, courtesy of their wonderful political science department, to engage in some candidate chasing, share our research insights, and experience the caucus. Hat tip in particular to Dr. Caroline Tolbert who does a lot of the coordination.

I’m not saying we’ll have anything brilliant or insightful to say, but you might want to watch various twitter feeds (and maybe we’ll figure out a hashtag) to give real time, on the ground reactions from a set of scholars.

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Paul Gronke
Professor, Reed College
Director, Early Voting Information Center
http://earlyvoting.net

General Inquiries: Laura Swann swannla at reed.edu

Media Inquiries: Kevin Myers myersk at reed.edu

> On Jan 5, 2020, at 1:11 PM, Levitt, Justin <justin.levitt at lls.edu> wrote:
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> “What it means to participate in the Iowa caucuses” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108737>
> Posted on January 5, 2020 1:01 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108737> by Justin Levitt <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
> Lyz Lenz offers a wry view <https://www.thegazette.com/subject/opinion/staff-columnist/what-it-means-to-participate-in-the-iowa-caucuses-20200105> in The Gazette.
> 
> But past the humor, her overall point is spot-on: few Americans understand how the Iowa caucuses actually work — and it looks a lot more like a town meeting than a typical election, which has some fairly substantial consequences (and raises some fairly substantial legitimacy concerns).  Rick, among a bunch of others, has been on this <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108072>  <https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/02/congress-should-kill-the-republican-and-democratic-state-caucuses-and-mandate-primaries-instead.html>for a while <https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/02/congress-should-kill-the-republican-and-democratic-state-caucuses-and-mandate-primaries-instead.html> – and I hope you can expect a lot more coverage of the actual process (and not just the polling horserace) as the process approaches.
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> <image001.png> <https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D108737&title=%E2%80%9CWhat%20it%20means%20to%20participate%20in%20the%20Iowa%20caucuses%E2%80%9D>
> Posted in political parties <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, primaries <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
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