To maintain some semblance of its former first-in-the-nation status, the Iowa Democratic Caucus took place at 7 p.m. Monday at Ames High School. While Republican precincts in Iowa began the process of nominating a candidate Monday, Democrats used the day to “elect unbound delegates and alternate delegates to county conventions, elect county central committee members.
While the Republican Party gears up to host the anticipated Iowa Republican Caucus on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the state’s Democratic Party is doing things a little differently. The Iowa Democratic Party will release the results of presidential preference cards sent by mail in early March and hold a caucus “without recording presidential.