ORGANIZE AND THEY WILL COME.

PRIMARIES; ELECTIONS; ETHNIC groups; VOTER identification laws

Winning the Iowa caucuses is seen as a significant indicator of a campaign's viability, even though the Iowa electorate, which in 2016 was 91 percent white, is hardly representative of the national electorate. In the Democratic caucuses, if a candidate doesn't reach a 15 percent voter threshold, that preference group dissolves, and those voters choose another nominee; that's why the process takes hours. In Iowa, 17-year-olds may caucus if they will be 18 by the time of the general election, so LULAC does voter registration drives in high schools. Many potential voters are isolated from the culture of voting because traditional politics prioritizes "regular" voters, meaning older white voters. [Extracted from the article]

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