{"id":9624,"date":"2020-01-31T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T21:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=9624"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T20:13:16","slug":"news-press-now-influential-iowa-gets-ready-to-hold-its-caucuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/31\/news-press-now-influential-iowa-gets-ready-to-hold-its-caucuses\/","title":{"rendered":"News-Press NOW: Influential Iowa gets ready to hold its caucuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/newspressnow.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/a\/57\/a57e5ca0-43b4-11ea-abf5-8b3b1a8a0057\/5e33617797366.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C628\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>Dr. Jonathan Euchner, an Iowan and a political scientist at Missouri Western State University, believes the caucus system in that state serves a valuable role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"subscriber-only\">\n<p>\u201cIt makes the winners of Iowa, Democrat and Republican, better presidents, because they actually have to meet real people,\u201d he said. \u201cI think Iowans take it pretty seriously. Those that show up ask good questions, and I think it\u2019s a really nice vetting process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspressnow.com\/news\/local_news\/influential-iowa-gets-ready-to-hold-its-caucuses\/article_9045ab86-4378-11ea-ac42-831405642ae2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">at newspressnow.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Dr. Jonathan Euchner, an Iowan and a political scientist at Missouri Western State University, believes the caucus system in that state serves a valuable role. \u201cIt makes the winners of Iowa, Democrat and Republican, better presidents, because they actually have to meet real people,\u201d he said. \u201cI think Iowans take it pretty seriously. Those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,970],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9625,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9624\/revisions\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}