Election year. People have been well aware of it. Whether it has been Donald Trump gloating about his hysterical plans, Ted Cruz’s citizenship being tested or Bernie Sanders’ new wave of young socialists, the 2016 Presidential election has been an important topic for discussion.

First off, Iowa had the first official Presidential caucus,when a state selects members to represent its party for the Presidential race, on February 1, 2016. Members of the political parties gathered and voted upon the Presidential candidates. This has taken  place in individual states. Republicans had a wide variety of voters, about 27.7% voting for Ted Cruz and 24.3% voting for Donald Trump, according to the Associated Press.

Donald Trump has been trending in the popular polls which has been surprising to many voters. Ironically, Ted Cruz has been significantly lower than him up until this Iowa caucus.

According to Quinnipiac, who took the Iowa poll, Trump had 7% on all the other candidates.

Moreover, many believed that this was due to the final debate hosted by Fox News that Trump decided to skip. Instead, Trump held an event to raise money for veterans right down the street. Ultimately, he raised almost six million dollars that day,and he donated one million himself. Furthermore this could have potentially cost Trump the race, seeing as Iowa was already a major swing state. Alternatively, Ted Cruz proved to the citizens that he was more interested and dedicated than Trump who skipped the debate. Ultimately, the major problem with Trump’s actions was that he did not have an opportunity to clearly speak about the specific Iowa problems that the voters so depended on.

According to Twitter’s statistics, Trump still had the largest follower growth throughout the debate’s airtime. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz took center stage at the debate, going at it with fellow runner, Marco Rubio.

Meanwhile, Democrats had a much different debate. To begin with, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton were tied neck and neck throughout the end of the race. In the beginning, Clinton had a slight lead, but it ultimately got down to mere decimal points between her and Sanders.

Meanwhile, O’Malley just grazed 1% of voters, and ultimately suspended his event at the end of the night, according to CNN.

Since the races have been so close, voters need to be informed and educated about the candidates.

 In the past, only 57% of Americans have voted in the 2012 election, Statistic Brain stated . This was ultimately detrimental to actual results, considering the electoral college and delegate system  will kick in if not enough votes are truly represented per a party, per state.Credit to Getty Images