Name: アイオワ州議会はなぜ重要なのか｜NYTニュース (Why the Iowa Caucuses Matter | NYT News)
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This was Iowa caucus night back in the mid-1970s.

And these are members of the national media covering

It was so unusual to see national media in Iowa

back then that people actually paid to watch them.

“The Democratic Party charged $15 a head for people

See, in previous years, Iowa’s caucuses

just hadn’t attracted national attention.

Just over a decade later, Iowa is the place to be.

what kind of support candidates have among voters.

So how did we get here, from caucuses that only Iowans

seem to care about to the national spectacle we

For most of Iowa’s history, its caucuses

An historian writing in the 1940s put it like this:

“The larger number of party voters were deprived

But the old ways start coming to an end in 1968.

The country’s in turmoil, and so is the Democratic Party,

mostly over the Vietnam War and civil rights.

and many rank-and-file members have other ideas.

All this comes to a head as the Democrats hold

All this division leads the Democratic Party

to rethink the nomination rules to include

the voices of all party members in the process.

when Iowa becomes key to electing a president,

It starts with new rules to give everyday members

So by 1972, winning Iowa now involves four stages.

These are the caucuses at the heart of this story.

voting at the county, congressional district

The new rules make things a lot more inclusive,

Committees need to be formed, and everyone

needs to have up-to-date party materials.

has an old mimeograph machine to make copies of all this.

So because of an old machine and a bunch of new logistics,

the party decides it needs at least a month

The national convention is set for early July,

so you’d think that the state-level convention would

Except, the party can’t find a venue that’s

The precinct caucuses now have to happen early in the year.

The New Hampshire primary has been the first kickoff

contest since the 1950s, but Iowa Democrats

aren’t necessarily looking for national attention.

They just think it’ll be fun to be first.

“People didn’t know much about the Iowa caucuses.

As a matter of fact, there wasn’t a great deal

He’s been at the bottom of national polls.

“He often walked the campaign trail alone,

Most people think this guy, Edmund Muskie,

“That challenge is great, but we can meet it.”

As the people vote, state party officials

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