A flat in Glasgow’s west end played host to one of the first caucuses in the world to choose the Democrat nominee
The Iowa Democratic caucuses – the crucial first vote in the long process of nominating the party’s presidential candidate – usually take place in community centres, churches and even living rooms in the midwestern US state.
As 20-year-old Carolyn Bernemann explains, she’s used to seeing them in “a conference room in a motel somewhere”. But for her and a few others, Monday night’s setting was a little different. For the first time, Carolyn and fellow Iowans abroad gathered in a cosy second-floor tenement flat in the west end of Glasgow in Scotland to cast their votes for their preferred candidate remotely.
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