CSPAN QA Iowa Caucuses History February 3, 2020
happen this year. let me start by asking when iowa caucus first hit the political radar? hitd: the first time they the political radar was 1972. iowa was -- always had caucuses but it was in 1972 that the democratic party started operating under new rules. i always tell people that now caucuses as we know them today were born in 1968 in the streets of chicago. the democratic party decided to open up the process so more people could attend and in doing so in 1972, you had a series of events, at the national convention, congressional district conventions and county conventions and prec...