On Monday Feb. 1, voting for the Iowa Caucus was held, thus officially starting the political journey to find the next president of the United States. Continuing on, the 49 other states will have their elections that give their citizens a chance to select their favorite candidate.

The United States runs on a single-member district where the person with the highest percentage of votes gets the vote for that district. This makes winning the caucuses and primaries so important to the candidates running.
Iowa was the first state to hold a caucus and had results that shocked some people; Hillary Clinton won the Democratic vote by a very narrow 0.3 percent and Ted Cruz won the Republican vote by 3.3 percent.

The presidential race proved to be harder for other candidates, as they decided to drop out of the presidential race. Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland, bowed out after the Iowa Caucus. Senator Lindsey Graham dropped out from the Republican race after his place in the polls kept lowering.

Even though these two candidates dropped out, that doesn’t allow for the still-running candidates to relax. The latest results of the elections have shown that the candidates need to prepare themselves in any way they can for the long road they are about to go down.

The primary in New Hampshire on Feb. 9 gave Bernie Sanders the win for the Democrats with 60.4 percent of votes and Trump with 35.3 percent of votes for the Republicans. This continues to make the results and the final job anyone’s game.

Following New Hampshire, Nevada hosted their caucus for Democrats on Feb. 20 and South Carolina held their primary for Republicans on Feb. 20 as well. In Nevada, Clinton won with 52.6 percent of votes. Donald Trump won in South Carolina with 32.5 percent of votes.

Nevada quickly moved on for their Republican caucus on Feb. 23. Donald Trump finished in something with this score. Hillary Clinton got this score as well.

There are many primaries and caucuses in February and this only starts the amount of voters each candidate will get when it comes down to the final vote. The results have no set pattern so far and continue to be a toss between any of the candidates.

The election process can take a toll on the candidates and, as each caucus and primary occurred, the candidates continued to drop out. Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie and Jim Gilmore all decided to drop out and rally their support behind the other candidates.

Caucuses and primaries will continue to go on until the actual final elections. The path is still very long and there is a toss up between all of the candidates. The election process can take a toll on the candidates and as each caucus and primary occurred, the candidates continued to drop out