Picking A Winner In Black Hawk County

January 4, 2012

by Kiernan Majerus-Collins

Kiernan Majerus-Collins/YouthJournalism.org
Iowans cast votes at the state’s largest GOP caucus at the UNI-Dome in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

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