The fundamentals of states in a federation, what’s the deal with primaries, what’s the deal with caucuses, the inexplicable primary sequencing, and what’s the deal with delegates?

Links:

• Kirby Ferguson on Twitter
• Kirby’s video series, This is Not a Conspiracy Theory
• Election Ride Home on Twitter
• Election Ride Home on Facebook
• Primary Elections (Wikipedia)
• Republicans adjusted rules for their primaries after 2012, and it’s helping Trump (WaPo)
• The Iowa caucuses, explained (Vox)
• 2020 Caucuses (Iowa Democrats)
• How do the Iowa caucuses work? (Des Moines Register)
• How Democratic Superdelegates Decided the 2016 Election (HuffPo)

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