caucus
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1. caucus - Noun
2. caucus - Verb
Meaning
A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding measures of party policy; a political primary meeting.
To hold, or meet in, a caucus or caucuses.
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Absent such an opportunity, it seems that the party opted to launch an app for use at caucus sites on one high-profile night by thousands of people who likely had varying degrees of familiarity with app technology.
A caucus can be described as somewhat organized chaos.
About a third of Iowa caucus-goers said that today was their first caucus.
After a test run of four sites in 2016, the Iowa Democratic Party increased the number of satellite caucus locations to 87, including four each in Florida and Arizona.
“Achieving viability in rural and mid-sized precincts will propel us forward in the delegate count,” campaign manager Justin Buoen and senior caucus adviser Norm Sterzenbach wrote.
Again, our caucus window is intended to be straw polls that would inform voters nationwide about which candidates were viable and could win the nomination.