14 Wednesday, January 27, 1988 / University Daily Kansan Presidential caucuses are a mystery to most Change is constant By Donna Stokes By Donna Stokes Cansan staff writer Mike Bechtel laughed when he was asked whether he knew how Kansas' presidential caucuses worked. "Sure, I know what a caucus is," the Prairie Village sophomore said, "It's when congressmen get together and party." He was only joking, but political science professors and several student political activists at the University of Kansas agree that many students don't understand Kansas' presidential nominating process. "My guess is that most students don't understand the complete process of a presidential election," said Marvin Harver, professor of political science. "Most adults don't understand it, either." "It is hard for even someone like me, who watches the MacNeil/Lehner report and reads three or four national newspapers a day, to make sense out of it at all times. It is difficult to keep up with all of the changes," he said changes, he said. Kansas caucuses will be held this spring in the Democratic and Republican parties. The Republicans will decide their presidential preferences March 5. The Democrats won't take it. Monday night. Brenda Eisele, president of the KU "Even people in our organization have been asking what a caucus is, how they can get involved, and whether or not they can participate in one," she said. College Republicans, said she did not think many students understood Kansas' presidential caucuses. The first chance Kansas students have to vote for their presidential choice will be in the caucuses. Many students who are registered to vote in another state can vote when their state has its primary. In Kansas, both the Republican and Democratic parties have a closed caucus system, which means that only Democrats can vote for Democratic nominees. The same is true for Republicans. has a proportional representation system, which means the allocation of national convention delegates to presidential conventions is based on the proportion of the vote each presidal candidate receives. The Republican caucus in Kansas has no formal form for allocating delegates to candidates. The method is determined by participants. In most states students must declare a political affiliation when they register to vote to be able to participate in a primary or caucus. In a primary, voters who have declared a party affiliation can indicate their presidential preferences by direct vote or through the choice of delegates to the presidential nominating convention. that presidential support is discussed in meetings, generally by party activists, and nominations are determined from those discussions. A caucus differs from a primary in Each state, and each party within a state, can go about the process in a different way, said Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science. "It's a confusing process; it changes every year," he said. Newspapers and television broadcasts will soon be filled with returns from the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire primary and Super Tuesday. The Iowa caucuses, Feb. 8, are important because they are the beginning of the actual process of selecting delegates. The New Hampshire primary, Feb. 16, is important because New Hampshire is the second state to nominate presidential delegates and has the first primary election. On Super Tuesday, March 8, 20 states will hold primaries or caucuses. Most of those states are in the south. Americans will vote on those nominees Nov. 8. The national convention for each party meets every four years after delegates from each state have been chosen and determines who the party's presidential nominee will be. 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