Crazy chaotic primary.
For sure.Actually I had no idea how it works in Iowa.Just looked it up and heres what I got.But I didn’t know the mechanics of the caucus in Iowa.
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How is a caucus different from a primary? The answer differs depending on which party you’re asking about. Instead of heading to one of Iowa’s 1,681 precincts and pulling a lever, voters will head to a caucus site that may toss several precincts together. Instead of seeing their votes tabulated by the state elections office, they’ll see them reported to the state parties, which will in turn report them to the news media.
Here’s where the parties diverge. A Republican caucus is odd but simple, a peanut-butter-and-tuna-fish combination of a normal election and a PTA meeting. At nearly 900 caucus sites, voters will gather, then hear speeches from whichever campaigns have precinct captains assigned to whip up votes.(Presidential candidates can show up and do this for themselves, in one of the most intimate examples of democracy in all of politics.) Then they’ll write their choices on paper and hand them in.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/23/heres-how-the-iowa-caucuses-work/