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Blueberries for president? My experience training as a first-timer for the 2020 Iowa caucus

  • menrig01
  • Mar 21, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Mar 24, 2020

As a journalist who'd only covered elections in Rhode Island before, knowing that I would be called upon to be embedded at a caucus site the night of the Iowa caucuses was an intimidating prospect. So I decided to go to a caucus training, and learn about what I needed to represent an accurate picture of the first-in-the-nation process to the world.


"I sat there, undecided.

Things were tense. I was uncommitted but had to make my decision quickly. I was being lobbied from two different directions.

Finally, I chose. I made my way to the cause I now believed in, the one I had been converted to and would later argue for: blueberries."


 
 
 

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