The oddities took place in a handful of larger counties, all Romney territory in 2012.
I have no empirical data, but exit polling showed a substantial youth vote in these caucuses.
Just didn’t look right....
If you mean Rubio-supporting areas, there’s no mystery. The largest employers around Des Moines are financial services, and those upscale suburbanites rejected Gov. Branstad’s pleas for Christie and followed the RNC’s push for Rubio. A lot of those financial services execs are young, and the older ones bring their offspring to the caucuses like they bring them to church and the country club.