What I’d like to know is why in Hell does the entire country obsess over the votes of about 120,000 people in Iowa? OK, they are as important as any other 120,000 people (or however many actually vote on Monday), but why are THEY taken as such a bellweather? They are only about 1/1000th of the total electorate. If they were so damned prescient or influential, Rick Santorum would’ve been the nominee in 2012, not Romney.
Its just first, that’s all.
“What I’d like to know is why in Hell does the entire country obsess over the votes of about 120,000 people in Iowa?”
Especially in view of the fact that they haven’t picked a winner in I don’t know how many years.
I have been where you are for decades. Iowa is such a circle jerk and waste of money and time.
It probably adds about a billion $’s to the Iowa GNP?