Idiom
caucus race
Meaning
The competitive process in which a political party selects their candidate, especially presidential; a primary election via caucus.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The candidates are busy preparing for the caucus race.”
“Many voters pay close attention to the early states because they often decide the winner of the caucus race.”
“Local organizers are setting up gymnasiums and community centers across the state to host the first official caucus race of the season.”
“Political analysts spent weeks debating which candidate possessed the necessary momentum to emerge victorious from the grueling and unpredictable caucus race.”
Examples
simple
“The candidates are busy preparing for the caucus race.”
contextual
“Many voters pay close attention to the early states because they often decide the winner of the caucus race.”
“Local organizers are setting up gymnasiums and community centers across the state to host the first official caucus race of the season.”
complex
“Political analysts spent weeks debating which candidate possessed the necessary momentum to emerge victorious from the grueling and unpredictable caucus race.”
Origin
From caucus (“regular party committee meeting of elected MPs”) + race (“contest between people”); a reference to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter III "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale", being a nonsensical satire thereof: all participants have to run in circles until an arbitrary end is called and everyone is declared a winner; Alice has to give prizes to them all, and being declared a winner too, the Dodo solemnly takes her thimble and awards it back to her.
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