
Caucus facts for kids
A caucus is basically a meeting of supporters or members of a political party or movement. Caucuses are slightly different in different countries.
In the United States, in some states, such as Iowa, political parties have a caucus to choose presidential nominees for their parties.
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Lewis Carroll mocked the futility of caucuses in "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale", Chapter 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865): when the "Caucus-race" of running in a circle stops, everyone is declared a winner by the Dodo and Alice is told to hand out prizes to all others, receiving her own thimble as her prize.
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