Can you link us to where you were complaining about the Iowa process like you are the Colorado process.
What people have complained about Iowa is that it has not selected the eventual Republican nominee in an contested primary since George W. Bush in 2000, Bob Dole in 1996, and Gerald Ford in 1976. Are the Republicans in Iowa disconnected from the rest of the country, is there something about the process that's missing the mood of the people, or does it just stink to go first?
My complaint still is that the caucus puts too many layers of party between the voter and the delegate for it to be truly representative.
-PJ
You are welcome. I understand your general complaint about caucus v. primary. Of course unless you are a Republican it is their nominee they are picking.
It is not a national election that is controlled by the government. It is a process constructed by members of a private club to decide who IN the club will represent the club in the general election. It is not surprising to me that a club might not want to be represented by someone who has not been a consistent member of the club.
GOP nominee for president is NOT a public office. It is merely one person one group is putting forth to run for a public office.
As for Iowa, conventional wisdom is that the Iowa GOP voters are more Christian conservatives than the rest of the GOP. So that is probably wrong. If you consider where the GOP wins, the south and the mountain states, I think maybe retail politics of Iowa did not translate easily to the mass media states of Texas, Florida, etc.