Why Is Iowa Special?

[jeff_duntemann]

And so the whole wretched business begins again, as the anointed tribal elite in Iowa gather tonight to caucus (which comes from an obscure Kickapoo Indian word meaning "to put tribal defectives in a dark room and order them to run around in circles acting like idiots") six months early or

Comments

[chris_gerrib]

Trying to apply logic to politics! How shocking! ;-)

Alas, there are many things where logic can be used. Politics is one where it can't. (Male - female interpersonal relationships are another, but that's a separate rant.)

[cutriss]

I do like that idea. Combine it with preferential voting, and we might just have a democracy.

[baron_waste]

Ultimately that reduces down to Douglas Adams' observation - that anyone who wants an office badly enough to run for it, probably shouldn't have it.

[billroper]

I believe the last Democratic Iowa caucus winner to go to the White House was Jimmy Carter. I was reminded this morning that Bush won there in 2000.