[Alberta's Child]

For all its hype, Iowa is one of the least consequential primary/caucus states of all. Over the last three or four decades, I believe the winners of contested caucuses in Iowa have gone on to win their party's nomination only about 50% of the time. Past winners in Iowa include such notable losers as:

1980 -- Geoorge H. W. Bush (R)
1988 -- Dick Gephardt (D)
1988 -- Bob Dole (R)
1992 -- Tom Harkin (D)
2008 -- Mike Huckabee (R)
2012 -- Rick Santorum (R)
2016 -- Ted Cruz (R)

[niteowl77]

For all its hype, Iowa is one of the least consequential primary/caucus states of all.

From your lips...

I would love to see both wings of the uniparty nuke the "first in the nation" crap. This year has been the worst ever for political ads; if you live in Iowa, they are inescapable and relentless. This cycle's crop of misfits turn any waiting room with a television into a torture chamber.