Monday 19 January 2004: 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. 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.

Saturday 6 March 2004: 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 24 April 2004: 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- insofar as the presidential campaign is concerned- of the District Convention is 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.

• 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 11 June 2004: 15 of 32 National Convention delegates are selected at today's State Convention District Caucuses.

The delegates to the Iowa State Republican Convention gather: 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 determined by each Congressional District Caucus.

Saturday 12 June 2004: The remaining 14 National Convention delegates are selected at today's State Convention.

The Iowa State Republican Convention officially convenes. The State Convention chooses the remaining 14 at-large of Iowa's delegates (10 base at-large delegates plus 4 bonus delegates) to the Republican National Convention.

• There is no formal system of allocating these 14 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.

In addition, 3 party leaders, the National Committeeman, the National Committeewoman, and the chairman of the Iowa's Republican Party, will attend the convention as unpledged delegates by virtue of their position.