Usually grouped together with presidential primaries, a caucus, refers mostly to the method of voting. Most famous are the Iowa caucuses, where small groups of like-minded people — the caucus — assemble to air opinions and reach a consensus. In the case of Iowa democrats, that consensus is reached by forming groups of supporters for each candidate and public discussion. Republicans caucus by what they call a "straw vote," which mimics a more traditional ballot-style election. Whether a state elects delegates by caucus or primary and what the delegates do with those results at the convention also varies by state, but the outcome is a party's candidate, officially named at the convention.
It means
redrawing electoral district boundaries to affect the outcome of an election. Instead of straight lines, they squiggle around so a district can skip areas that would make an election head one
way or the other.
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Awesome! My mother-in-law and I were just speaking on this the other day when we were watching coverage on the news. Neither of us were entirely sure what the word meant.
Sugar is so sweet.
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