Monday 24 January 2000: Republican Party Caucuses meet in each precinct. Each Precinct Caucus chooses the precinct's delegates to the County Convention.

• "There is no formal system applied in the Precinct Caucuses to relate the presidential preference of the Caucus participants to the choice of the precinct's delegates to the Republican Convention of the County in which the precinct is located (which, despite the media circus, is all that will be actually decided at the Iowa caucuses!). The participants at each Precinct Caucus alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor in such choice and, if so, how it is to be applied. (Estimates will, of course, be made by media outlets as well as the contenders themselves as to how many of Iowa's 25 National Convention delegates each contender will ultimately be receiving but, of course, since NO National Convention delegates are actually being chosen by these caucuses, all such estimates will almost certainly, in the end, be WRONG!!)"

Saturday 4 March 2000: Republican Party County Conventions convene in each county. Each County Convention chooses delegates to both the Congressional District Conventions and the State Convention.

• "County Conventions choose both the county's delegates to the Republican Party Convention of the Congressional District the county is a part of as well as the county's delegates to the Iowa State Republican Convention. Again, there is no formal system applied in the County Convention to relate the presidential preference of the County Convention delegates to the choice of the county's delegates to either the Republican Convention of the Congressional District in which the county is located or the Iowa State Republican Convention. The delegates in attendance at each County Convention alone determine if presidential preference is to be a factor and, if so, how it is to be applied."

Saturday 29 April 2000: Republican Party District Conventions convene in each congressional district. As the delegates to the Iowa State Republican Convention have already been chosen, the sole business of the District Convention- insofar as the presidential campaign is concerned- is, apparently, in that of instructing the delegates to the Iowa State Republican Convention from the counties making up said congressional district as to the presidential contender most preferred by the delegates in attendance at the District Convention.

• "Once more, there is no formal system governing how the District Convention is to go about indicating its presidential preference to the Iowa State Republican Convention delegates from the counties making up a given congressional district. It is the delegates in attendance at the District Convention alone who decide how best to go about this."

Friday 9 June 2000: The Iowa State Republican Convention gathers: at this time, the delegates to the State Convention from each county making up a given congressional district meet in separate Congressional District Caucuses to choose the state's district delegates to the Republican National Convention.

• "Each of Iowa's 5 congressional districts are assigned 3 National Convention delegates. Thus, a total of 15 district delegates will be chosen by these Congressional District Caucuses. These 15 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be allocated to the presidential contenders in such a way as to be determined by each Congressional District Caucus. (Therefore, the very first time Republican National Convention delegates from Iowa will be allocated to presidential contenders officially will be at these 9 June Congressional District Caucuses!!)

Saturday 10 June 2000: The Iowa State Republican Convention officially convenes. The State Convention chooses the remaining 10 at-large of Iowa's delegates (6 base at-large delegates plus 4 bonus delegates) to the Republican National Convention.

• "There is no formal system of allocating these 10 at-large National Convention delegates to presidential contenders. These delegates will be allocated according to the vote of the Iowa State Convention as a whole. (Only as of 10 June will ALL of Iowa's 25 Republican National Convention delegates have been allocated: it is quite probable that the field of Republican presidential contenders on 10 June might very well be quite different from the same way that field looked at the time the Iowa Precinct Caucuses took place back on 24 January!)"

Iowa has 99 counties and 5 congressional districts: all 99 counties are "undivided- that is, they are all wholly within a given congressional district.

• CD # 1: Cedar, Clinton, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Louisa, Muscatine and Scott
• CD # 2: Allamakee, Benton, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Grundy, Howard, Iowa, Jackson, Mitchell, Tama, Winneshiek and Worth
• CD # 3: Adams, Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jasper, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lee, Lucas, Mahoska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Page, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Story, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington and Wayne
• CD # 4: Adair, Audubon, Cass, Dallas, Fremont, Guthrie, Harrison, Madison, Mills, Montgomery, Polk, Pottawatamie and Shelby
• CD # 5: Boone, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cherokee, Clay, Crawford, Dickinson, Emmet, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Monona, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Sac, Sioux, Webster, Winnebago, Woodbury and Wright