by KYW's Steve Tawa
Some students at Central High School in the Olney section of Philadelphia have a particular interest in the Iowa caucuses. They already had one recently, in the classroom.
After doing extensive research on the candidates and the issues, their open caucus allowed them to support any candidate, according to teacher Mike Horwits:
"Not only will they vote, they think they're more informed than their parents."
Unlike a primary, where your vote is private, in a caucus, you walk into a room, declare your support for your candidate, divide into groups, then try to convince others to support your candidate. Seventeen-year-old junior, Ian Toller-Clark, advocated for Barack Obama:
"He's open to new ideas, and he's the guy who gets things done."
Horwits says Hillary Clinton went in as the front runner, perhaps because of her connection to the former president, and the only female candidate, but lost ground, as students picked up on themes pushed by Obama and Dennis Kucinich:
"So it's interesting to note Hillary's slippage among potential voters here at Central and how that's going to play out across the rest of the nation."
At Central, Obama, Kucinich, and Joe Biden finished one, two, three.
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