A Whole Different Story

Rereading the news from the 2000 Iowa caucauses sure gets you thinking. I get the feeling the turn out in Iowa is going to be a lot more impressive this time around:

CNN estimated that only 8.3 percent of the state's voting age population actually turned up at caucus voting places, with 3.5 percent of these attending Democratic gatherings, and 4.8 percent turning out for the Republicans.

The last time Democratic hopefuls slugged through a contested primary in 1988, 5.9 percent came out to vote for the five-candidate field. In 1996, 4.6 percent of the voting age population participated in the Republican caucuses