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With the Iowa Presidential nominating caucuses due up on Thursday, here is an explanation and a history of the modern caucus process. The source is the Congressional Quarterly Press Guide To U.S. Elections, Volume I. Does the caucus system exclude the public to the benefit of ideologically extreme and unrepresentative individuals? Or does the caucus system rightly allow for well-informed party activists to have a strong say in who will win Presidential nominations and help build strong parties after the caucus is completed? Read the following and see what you think. From the book— In the current primary-dominated era of Presidential