[HitmanLV]

Does anybody seriously challenge that a person can come to the reasonable conclusion that 'the Iowa caucuses as dominated by special interests,' saying that they "don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American people, they represent the extremes?"

Is the trouble because he changed his mind about it a few years later? To me, his first comment actually makes more sense and rings as more true.

This is such a non-story. He had one opinion about it before he got involved in a caucus, and has a different opinion (maybe more palatable and self serving, sure) after getting more experience with the caucus.

This is a 'scandal?' This is absurd.

[mewzilla]

A non-story? LOL. Tell it to Howie :)

[Shermy]

# 70

I agree.

And he's just using the system dealt to him.

[Timesink]

Is the trouble because he changed his mind about it a few years later?

The trouble for Howie is that, to an Iowan, it comes off as a personal insult, an elitist Northeastern liberal telling the goober midwesterners how to run their elections.

Whether Dean's arguments are correct doesn't matter. What matters is how Iowans interpret it. If he loses the nomination, being right about the caucus system will be cold comfort to Dean.