It's time for the Iowa caucuses...

[VIDEO] I've been wanting to mark this year a presidential election year and let's start with Mr. Beat who covers the Iowa Caucuses one of the first major campaigns in the presidential election. The caucuses takes place today on Monday and the stakes are primarily among the many Democrats running for the presidential nomination - to be able to run against Republican President Donald Trump.

I suppose the questions that are being asked in this video is how effective are the Presidential Iowa caucuses in predicting who will win not only the nomination of their party to run for President? How effective are these caucuses in predicting who will be elected President? And how do foreigners such as a Canadian interviewed here view the idea of citizens helping to determine a party's nominee for President?