Iowa Caucuses Set for Monday
Paul Sancya—AP
We ran the numbers: There are 1849 news articles covering this topic. 51% (948) are left leaning, 30% (562) center, 18% (339) right leaning.
Monday’s Iowa caucuses serve to begin the nominating contests to pick the Democratic party’s presidential nominee. While left-leaning articles report on what the Democratic candidates have been doing the weekend before the caucus, right-leaning articles report that the results of a new poll reveal the divide amongst Democratic voters between different age groups.
A left-leaning article by The Washington Post highlights how presidential candidates spent their last weekend before the Iowa caucuses. While Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) stopped by a bar in Des Moines Friday night to speak and take a few selfies, former vice president Joe Biden was already in Iowa, and quoted George Washington to criticize President Trump.
NPR published a centrist article highlighting that for some Iowa voters, the caucuses are a barrier to participation. Many Iowans who want to participate have to make special arrangements, as voters have to show up in person at 7 p.m. CT at a specific location and are expected stay there for multiple hours. While Iowa’s population is more than 3 million, the greatest number of people who have participated in a presidential caucus was 240,000 for the 2008 Democratic contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
A right-leaning article by Fox News reports that a recent Quinnipiac University survey showed that there is a startling between younger and older Democratic voters. The split occurs in which older voters, aged 65 and older, are backing Biden over Sanders (36 percent to 7 percent), while only 3 percent of Democrat-leaning voters between the ages of 18 to 34 support Biden.
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