Tancredo Joins Huckabee In IA for Caucuses
ShareRep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) will travel to IA next Monday, his third trip to the caucus state in a year.
He attends a Victory '06 fundraiser for the state party in downtown Des Moines and then attends a precinct caucus.
Also visiting the state: AR Gov. Mike Huckabee, who will observe a caucus in Sioux City.
You might think that a caucus observation is prudent. After all, the rules for Dem caucuses are mindbendingly complex. Viability. Numerical remainders. Weighted averages. Oy.
Not so for GOPers: caucuses on the precinct level are, basically, straw polls. The results are... transitive. They don't bind delegates at regional and state conventions to any particular candidate. (In recent presidential years, that's allowed the GOP caucuses to safely slip into the party's nomination calendar without violating rules.)
BTW: on Monday morning, Iowans rooting for Jim Nussle can hear ex-RNC chairman/Alito sherpa/George Allen PAC treasurer Ed Gillespie, ex-maj. leader Dick Armey and ex-IA GOP chair/ex-NRA pres. Kayne Robinson speak at Nussle campaign headquarters. [MARC AMBINDER]
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