Thatâs about an average monthâs salary in China, according to this data from 2012, or three months of a bus driverâs monthly salary, according to another source. In other words, buying an iPhone for your average Chinese citizen would be much like buying a cheapish second-hand car for $5,000 to $10,000 in the U.S.
Caucuses were once the most common way of choosing presidential nominees. Today, Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Wyoming and Iowa are the only states to rely solely on the caucus, according to the Federal Election Commission.
Primary elections are held to determine a political partyâs candidate for a general election. In the United States, primaries generally fall into three categories: open, closed and semi-closed.n both Alaska and Utah, for instance, the Democratic parties held open primaries in 2012, while their Republican counterparts limited primary participation to members of their own party.