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The '''Iowa Caucus''' is the first major official contest in the nation for both [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] presidential candidates. It has served as an early indicator of primary candidates strength since its first took the national spotlight in 1972. [[Image:NH-Iowa.JPG|thumb|300px]]  The caucus is not a primary (in which people simply vote and leave) but a local meeting that takes several hours to select delegates to the next higher county meeting.[[File:Caucus1.jpg|thumb|260px]]
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The '''Iowa Caucus''' is the first major official contest in the nation for both [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] and [[Republican Party|Republican]] presidential candidates. It has served as an early indicator of primary candidates strength since its first took the national spotlight in 1972. The caucus is not a primary (in which people simply vote and leave) but a local meeting that takes several hours to select delegates to the next higher county meeting.[[File:Caucus1.jpg|thumb|260px]]
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'''''The Iowa caucuses for the 2016 presidential primary will be held on February 1, 2016'''''.
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Iowa Republican primary voters tend to be conservative on the social issues.  [[Rick Santorum]] won a surprise victory against heavily funded [[Mitt Romney]] in Iowa in 2012.  In 2008, [[Mike Huckabee]] won the Iowa caucuses.
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Candidate [[Scott Walker]] has a geographic advantage in being the governor of next-door [[Wisconsin]], but he does not have a strong following among social conservatives.
    
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