The
State of Iowa was established in 1846 and was the
29th state to be admitted to the United States. It
is centrally located between the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers, and is part of the central region
in the United States known as the Midwest. The
state is made up of sweeping prairies, rolling
hills and winding rivers. A large percentage of the
land in Iowa is used for agricultural purposes. The
capital of Iowa is Des Moines, which is located in
the southern part of the state. Iowa is named after
the Ioway, a Native American tribe that had settled
in the region before the Europeans.
(For more Iowa History, see http://publications.iowa.gov/
& Iowa
Official Register.)
In the last 10 out of 12 Iowa Caucuses, Iowa has
picked the top 3 candidates from both parties who
would later go on to win their party's nomination
for president.
The State of Iowa has
been using the caucus system to select
presidential candidates since 1917. It wasn't the
first state to hold its' caucuses until 1972, when the Democratic party changed its'
caucuses
to be First in the Nation. Since that time, both
the
Iowa Democratic and Republican parties moved their
caucuses and primaries to be First in the Nation.
Iowa will currently hold its' caucus on
February 3rd, 2020. Under state law, Iowa is
sanctioned
to be the first cacus held in the nation. The Iowa
Caucus will play a major role in isolating the top
candidates for each political party for the November
3rd, 2020 Presidential Election.
(See
https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/iacode/2001supplement/43/4.html.)
Past
Iowa Caucus Results: _____
(underlined) =
Eventually Winning
Candidate of the Parties Nomination Process
|
Year |
Democrats |
Republicans |
|
2016 |
1) Hillary
Clinton
2) Bernie Sanders
3) Martin O'Malley
|
1) Ted Cruz
2)
Donald Trump
3) Marco Rubio
4) Ben Carson
5) Rand Paul
6) Jeb Bush
7) Carly Fiorina
8) John Kasich
|
|
2012 |
1)
Barack Obama
|
1) Rick Santorum
2)
Mitt Romney
3) Ron Paul
4) Newt Gigrich
5) Rick Perry
6) Michele Bachmann
7) Jon Huntsman |
|
2008 |
1) Barack
Obama
2) John Edwards
3) Hillary Clinton
4) Bill Richardson
5) Joe Biden
6) Chris Dodd
7) Dennis Kucinich
8) Gravel
|
1)
Mike Huckabee
2) Mitt Romney
3) Fred Thompson
4) John McCain
5) Ron Paul
6) Rudy Giuliani
7) Duncan Hunter
8) John Cox |
|
2004 |
1)
John Kerry
2) John Edwards
3) Howard Dean
4) Richard Gephard
5) Dennis Kucinich
|
1)
George W. Bush (Sitting Pres. - unchallenged) |
|
2000 |
1)
Albert Gore (Sitting VP)
2) Bill Bradley |
1)
George W. Bush
2) Steve Forbes
3) Alan Keyes
4) Gary Bauer
5) John McCain
6) Orrin Hatch
|
|
1996 |
1)
William Clinton (Sitting Pres. - unchallenged) |
1)
Robert Dole
2) Pat Buchanan
3) Lamar Alexander
4) Steve Forbes
5) Phil Gramm
6) Alan Keyes
7) Richard Lugar
8) Morry Taylor
|
|
1992 |
1) Tom Harkin
2) Paul Tsongas
3) William Clinton
4) Bob Kerrey
5) Jerry Brown
|
1)
George Bush, Sr. (Sitting Pres. - unchallenged) |
|
1988 |
1)
Dick Gephardt
2) Paul Simon
3) Michael Dukakis
4) Bruce Babbitt
|
1)
Robert Dole
2) Pat Robertson
3) George Bush, Sr. (Sitting VP)
4) Jack Kemp
5) Pete Dupont
|
|
1984 |
1)
Walter Mondale
2) Gary Hart
3) George McGovern
4) Alan Cranston
5) John Glenn
6) Rueben Askew
7) Jesse Jackson
|
1)
Ronald Reagan (Sitting President) |
|
1980 |
1)
Jimmy Carter (Sitting President)
2) Ted Kennedy |
1) George
Bush, Sr.
2) Ronald Regan
3) Howard Baker
4) John Connally
5) Phil Crane
6) John Anderson
7) Robert Dole
|
|
1976 |
1) Jimmy Carter
2) Birch Bayh
3) Fred Harris
4) Morris Udall
5) Sargent Shriver
6) Henry Jackson
|
1)
Gerald Ford (Sitting President)
2) Ronald Reagan |
|
1972 |
1) Edmund Muskie
2) George McGovern
3) Hubert Humphrey
4) Eugene McCarthy
5) Shirley Chisholm
6) Henry Jackson
|
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Corn and corn components can be found in thousands
of products including cleansers, cosmetics, drugs,
and food. Beyond food and consumer product uses,
corn is replacing petroleum in industrial
applications from plastic containers to ethanol.
Because corn products are a biodegradable and
renewable resource, they're better for the
environment than their petroleum counterparts.
According to 2005-2006 USDA Industry Statistics,
Iowa's corn crop is used for the following: