Then came Rick Santorum's sweep in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota – meaning that the frontrunner had actually lost five of the first eight primaries and caucuses, four of them to Santorum and one to Newt Gingrich.
All four contenders have visited Washington ahead of Saturday's caucuses, but three of the four are campaigning in Ohio, the critical primary state next week.
In the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses of March 6, Romney won six of ten contests, including a narrow victory in Ohio over a vastly outspent Santorum.
In a last ripple of the civil rights era, practically concurrent with the debut of the new improved caucuses, a gang of five – the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, Iowa Federation of Labor, United Auto Workers, League of Women Voters and the Iowa Democratic Party – went to the state Supreme Court to challenge the plan.
Roughly 40 volunteers representing three caucuses of the BFSA Homewood, East Baltimore and the Applied Physics Laboratory will fan out across the community and let residents know about the new initiative and how to access the services.
On the night of the Nevada caucuses, Eric Fehrnstrom, one of Mr. Romney's top advisers, even sent out a Twitter message that seemed geared to minimize the importance of the Mormon vote and to highlight what he suggested was a broad-based victory.
Some 10% of potential caucus-goers claim that they have not made up their minds and another 40% say that they are open to shifting allegiance.The Iowa caucuses are one of the great peculiarities of American politics: a source of pride to Iowans and puzzlement to much of the rest of the country.
Poor outcomes in the Iowa caucuses already have ended the bids of three GOP candidates -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
Mar. 26, 2016, 2 21 p.m. Bernie Sanders won Alaska's caucuses, according to new projections, one of three Democratic nominating contests Saturday.
After yesterday's votes, only Trump has won primaries (or caucuses) in three regions of the country: the South, the West, and the Northeast.
