What Will the Caucus Avoiders Do?

“After spending months cultivating party activists, presidential campaigns in Iowa are going all-out in the final four weeks to woo an additional target: caucus avoiders,” the Des Moines Register reports.

“Registered Republicans and Democrats who don’t caucus are a massive group. Persuading a small fraction to turn out rather than stay home could rip the presidential race out of the current front-runners’ hands and put someone else on the path to the White House.”

“If they were to create a wave on Feb. 1, political strategists say, it would most likely crest for the ultra-liberal Bernie Sanders or the mad-dog conservative Donald Trump, the two breakout phenomena of the 2016 race and vessels for anger about a political and economic system they rail against as broken.”