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Well, blogospheric response to the call for blog burst participants has been heartwarming. I'd like to thank our first participant, with a wonderful graphic depiction of Iowa Caucus history from J.NelsonW.'s Big Picnic.
Who remembered that both Dick Gephardt and Tom Harkin won the Iowa Caucuses, before teaming up with Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to become the Democratic Tom, Dick and Harry? (Daschle sometimes fills in for Harkin, btw.) Well, thanks to J.Nelson, we all know that. A great post, from the great Big Picnic site, sometimes called a "left wing Scrappleface", but I like to think of Scrappleface as a right wing version of The Big Picnic .

The Unseen Editor joins the fun with this Iowa preview of Monday's activities (with thanks to the New York Times):

On January 19, C-SPAN will be broadcasting a couple of Iowa caucus meetings
live. Here's what you can expect to see:

The caucuses will convene at 6:30 p.m. as participants arrive and sign in.
Some could have a dozen or so people show up, others in the hundreds. After
candidate letters are read and nominating papers circulated, the hat is
passed for money to help pay for the caucuses. They get down to presidential
business at 7 p.m.

The chairman of the caucus determines the "viability" threshold for groups
backing each presidential candidates, which in most cases will be 15 percent
of the number of people attending. Caucusgoers then have 30 minutes to
divide into preference groups for the candidates. If some groups supporting
candidates do not reach the 15 percent level, those people then have up to
half an hour to realign with other campaigns.

At this stage, the pressure will be on the newly liberated caucusgoers to
enlist with another candidate. In a deeper layer of strategy, some
participants might even align with a candidate they are not that wild about
to cut into the count of those who most threaten their first choice.

At the end of 30 minutes, the preference groups are counted again and the
delegates are apportioned by multiplying the number in the preference group
by the number of delegates up for grabs in a precinct, then dividing by the
total attending the caucus. In cases of ties, delegates can be awarded by
flipping a coin or drawing straws.

Caucus chairs phone in the attendance numbers and delegate totals to the
party, which translates the precinct delegates into a proportion of 3,000
statewide delegates. The percentages that will shape the next stage of the
presidential race will be the proportion of state delegates that each
candidate received.

The process can be daunting even to natives. So the state voter office, the
party and private groups have staged dozens of workshops and training
sessions around Iowa, complete with mock caucuses.

"I have chaired my precinct since 1980 and I still have to sit down and read
through it and refresh myself," said Ms. Lipsman, the Democratic workshop
leader.

Its a damned good thing Carol Mosely Braun dropped out today (throwing her support to Dean)-- or the vast number of her supporters would just make this a logistical nightmare!

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