Hi Lee,

Thanks for the interesting info.

"After reading this is the news I was thinking that if we could get the time and
place for when the speaker declares that the nomination goes to the candidate we
would have a good chart to look over."

Well, that's why I do horary charts: so I don't have to be concerned about
getting specialized times.



--- In astroscan@yahoogroups.com, "Lee" <tobors_dragon@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Evelyn
>
> After reading this is the news I was thinking that if we could get the time
and place for when the speaker declares that the nomination goes to the
candidate we would have a good chart to look over.
>
> Does anyone know how to get the data for this event? It would be for the time
that they announce the winner at their meeting in whatever city they hold it in.
>
> Thanks,
> Lee
>
>
> Iowa voters hold sway over how president is chosen
>
> The Iowa caucuses draw outsized attention from politicians and the news media
because they are first and can put a symbolic political wind behind the sails of
the top finishers, making them more attractive not only to voters but also to
donors who finance campaigns.
>
> Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:07:46 -0500
> DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — All across Iowa next Tuesday, tens of thousands of
Republican voters will travel through a chilly Midwestern night to the warmth of
a local church or gymnasium for caucus meetings to select presidential
candidates, the first voting in the 2012 election campaign.
>
> These Midwestern, mostly white voters hardly resemble America as a whole, and
their voting system puzzles most people. Yet Iowa holds substantial sway over
how the nation chooses the president.
>
> "Iowa will choose the next president of the United States in their early
caucuses," Republican hopeful Michele Bachmann said recently. "This is the
cannon shot."
>
> The caucuses — essentially community meetings — have served as a launching pad
to the nomination, and often to the White House, for the past 40 years, though
they've been around since the 1840s. Candidates tend to lavish attention on
Iowa, hoping that a good showing will give them a burst of publicity to improve
their chances in New Hampshire, which votes Jan. 10, and in other early voting
states.
>
> It's this contest that helped propel Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al
Gore to their parties' nominations in 2000. It also helped Democrat John Kerry
become Bush's challenger in 2004. And the caucuses gave Democrat Barack Obama
his first win in 2008, though Mike Huckabee won on the Republican side, not the
eventual GOP nominee, John McCain.
>
> The caucus process seems arcane and mysterious, even to people in Iowa. That
is in part because most people don't even participate. About 359,000 people — 17
percent of registered voters in Iowa — showed up for Democratic and Republican
caucuses in 2008. Turnout will certainly be lower this year, since Obama is
unopposed. And the GOP turnout may not exceed the record-setting 120,000
attendees that the party's contest saw four years ago.
>
> Caucuses are held in all of the state's 1,774 voting precincts, some in remote
spots where only a handful of voters gather, others in big community centers or
schools that host several precincts under one roof. In all, Republicans will
gather in about 800 locations.
>
> This relatively small number of voters, and their overwhelmingly white makeup,
routinely bring Iowa's caucuses under attack by outsiders who want more clout
for their own states. Only 5 percent of Iowa's electorate is Hispanic and only 3
percent is black, compared with a national electorate that is 16 percent
Hispanic and 12 percent black.
>
> For their part, Iowans jealously guard their first-in-the-nation nominating
contests.
>