Rachelle's Reading List, Tuesday January 3rd, 2012

14. The Iowa Caucus, 101 What the heck is the Iowa Caucus? [HuffPo] The Iowa Caucus, what you need to know. [MSN] Why is the Iowa Caucus so important? [History]

"The Iowa caucuses will be getting underway in just a few hours, and normally, as events speed themselves toward the conclusion of a thing, one expects bewilderment to fade and for a certain amount of well ... certainty to start to congeal. But this is Iowa, in an election year, and the whole point is that you are not supposed to have any clue about what is going to happen. Don't let so-called experts make you feel bad for feeling out-of-the-loop as they casually make predictions, either! They don't have the slightest idea what's going on, either." [HuffPo]