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that's what a twelve you know and i i i one of these precipice of iowa here a
lot of people been asking what exactly is the caucus how does it work most of
us go into a voting booth with push a button the punch of chad we do something
now arcane like check something off and put in a box
and i was done very differently the caucuses are uh... some people say dark
and i think sort of interesting ka i thought we would bring someone on who
will actually be in the caucus who presumably his caucus many times before
hot so we're joined today by uh... by dave funk was the co-chair of the poll
county uh... g_o_p_ party in in iowa dave thanks for being on twenty twelve
elizabeth said to be with you michael so if you know the experience as a as i
said but just a moment ago the experience of of most american voters is
not to go into someone's living room discuss
here some some campaigning in sentencing and and and and cast a vote what what
actually happens are you you're going to be
on tuesday night where do you go tell take us through your head
i thought about it won't never have been elementary school on the temporary
caucus chair
and what that means as well all be involved in getting all my fellow
republicans are people on a registry that evening
as republicans um... during other parties or new registration of new
people in the neighborhood
um... we get everybody check then abruptly somewhere around two hundred at
two hundred fifty people look at this elementary school for my precinct which
is one of a larger physically
but no bigger than any of the other briefings uh... from a population
standpoint polk county we've got a hundred medium in polk county as word of
mortality response and i do have a lot to ask you a question of that so you can
register as a new voters in iowa uh... that night
at the rate at standard process
you have to produce an idea to have to prove to be a true with the neighborhood
you distort boston for the event right round
you know it's a it's a private party function scandals and what's the origin
of the two political parties what does your seventeen-year-old but you will be
old enough to vote by next november you loud and caucus
yes you can if you're going to be a pain in the open birds the supplemental
memoranda election day that they were before
uh... then you can kaka spread out
point slash font slash brightly orchard twenty years old and your repair
supporter i guess it's it's solicitude soldier most texas *** and i said i
well i well i promise uh... notices so that's interesting you can register even
if you're not an agent selling semester okay
that's correct
itzel here that they are electrically come in and your neighbors will be there
some of you know i have some about five volunteers of the stepped up to apply to
help
will get rid of the check in with it's just as if you're going into a voting
booth to check in process pastime him in the caucus will you become the body of
governing body they then pick a permanent error
who will be that car that precincts
g_o_p_ chairman for the next two years so cell-based some of the republican
side what will happen is warpath out after all the different candidates uh...
representative toward sometimes a candidate himself actually show up
i'm not just before the presidential caucus patrol officers were state
senator hill state senator state house representatives
county supervisors
uh... they or their surrogates will speak briefly in the old there'll be a
lot of those real very small amount of time to three minutes max
uh... if there's ten people are supporting them you know we recruit
anemia mentioned attachment ten people are are supporting the military folks
will pick one person to be asserted or the campaign may have been submitted
someone
that has the talking points for the evening
uh... then there exists awaits a sleigh undecided voters who may still be there
are people that are or have soft support for another candidate that subject
exactly that exactly what they're there to do the trick that last minute so
but what happens is we thought we passed out uh... but pre-qualify piece of paper
and that your week where we don't tell anybody what we're doing a poor county
till that night the only people ignore the temperatures
we passed out some color cheap the paper with us with the watermarking to stay up
on them
so that you can just use white sheets intro an extra twenty america is seeing
right grandpa felicia and then we we basically we have our we have our own
slipped just basically a poll put a lot of a better word you know we have our
vote both members of the recorded
m and what happened to the representative of each campaign if they
want to watch the cacld they're allowed to do something isolate walk to the
other side of the ruminate they actually couple slips of paper everybody agrees
with the counter accurate
and then they call that those results into the state party to a very specific
telephone number
uh... it's recorded vote this year we're doing it to his were doing when you make
a call when you call into the number do electronically when you verify with a
purple because i'm on a much that group of so they're going to happen or
computers in trying to promote binoculars socks off we're gonna have a
a paper count going simultaneous is here to make sure that that happens i sell a
democrat
do just a little differently but that's actually doing the same thing yeah yet
know what they do since a lot more confusing what they do side you know
what they do it it's it's a lot more fun for them because what they do if they
decide to go
only giving up three people writes on board that you ever have a certain level
of support to get
out of the precinct were provoked that might be ten or fifteen or twenty
percent i'm not sure the exact number it should have asked my wife before i set
out to chico arts was with the democrats right um... deliberate in our family
joke if it were mixed marriage since i guess that's carville's analysis
online insisted that would exactly but uh... what they do is it for you
candidate is below
the threshold or whatever that threshold aside i think it's ten percent yeah
might be twenty five percent but what happened to those
uh...
today revoked i didn't want workers is a different people in the room
will go live a lobbying try to get your guy to come join us
you know for example bill richardson was not viable in most preteen blast you
know the last four years ago descent he believes and is for his nose and sinuses
people flight four thirty and it's an example
that's interesting exactly i don't know what happened at the other campaign said
anybody but hillary
uh... limit that came officially from the retreat in people
you know it anybody that hillary guru go wherever you are up but if anybody but
hillary nice guys what do you know what to come down from the campaign and
that's what they've got mimic people chose who they want
but after that initial voters done
probably two-thirds of the people leak
right you don't have to yeah okay
uh... you can look at that point and the police tell you that there's a lack of
your report or anything after the fact but whatever happens is party
businesspeople last semester planks to the platform
people try to get the have become delegate soon will pay the fetus voted
out to be delegates right um... in them though but they'll be involved in them
adult delegates alternates giving them a platform committee getting on the
credentials committee uh... running to be a central committee member you know
the second one the permanent you're usually one
by uh... acclamation and the second person to run for the central committee
spot out of those guitars precincts
sold general party building which occurs in some of these caucuses can go you
know they can be pretty contentious single told me might want to make this
sunday this has been invaluable really a lot of people don't know how this works
in and you have put it in layman's terms and and and really helped us out now
in understanding how this works at the f_a_a_ that uh... really interesting we
already have
you know site will have about some people show up
website well with eighteen or twenty and so much more county excellence in
america
three homes this year will have a caucuses uh... being conducted in three
different county so
at four or keep it up a lot of thought and what you've done it you know it's
pretty quiet unimportant nineteen eighty doing it out here are some other uh...
sounds a lot more fun it sounds like you just evil involved in which is which
they chewed up my sister's side it's on few of the did nothing but a pleasure
thanks so much for coming on twenty twelve in and have fun as least secular
sappy happy new year spaces
uh... we'll be back with more twenty five