Iowa Caucus

The Democrats do their caucuses differently from the Republicans. From what I understand they have to declare who they voted for rather than having secret ballots. Dems get into groups supporting each candidate and if they do not have a certain percentage of the people in the room then they don't get to vote for their candidate of choice. Groups for other candidates then get to win the disenfranchised people over to their group. With the Republicans we just counted all the votes. The chairperson in my caucus said afterward that she chaired a Democrat caucus 4 years ago and fights broke out. She was terrified to chair our GOP caucus and quite surprised by how the GOP did things differently. We did have some minor debating during the party platform discussion time, but it was all very polite.