Posted on 01/04/2012 3:50:38 AM PST by Kaslin
Iowa has consistently had among the highest (often the highest) literacy rates in the country.
That’s good
“Iowa has consistently had among the highest (often the highest) literacy rates in the country.”
I can’t imagine what real American people think when they see us sophisticated coastal city people in the news. They must think newscasts from NJ are actually from Tripoli, Johannesburg, or Rio.
Sarah Palin referred to these people as those that grow our food and fight our wars; she was right.
Iowa is a great state with good people.
The Iowa Caucus is a polluted, contrived affair that does not reflect the values of the state.
All that is true and so is the fact that Iowans elect radical leftisits like Harkin.
Has Iowa gone red or blue over the last 50 years?
A true nobel and high class class person respects others no matter what their profession or background from ditch digger to doctor... then there is professor Stephen Bloom.
How perfect!!!
“The Iowa caucuses may not have much predictive value, but they did a wonderful job of unmasking both elitist whingers on the left and incompetent whiners on the right.”
Seriously strip this state of the first caucus status. They really think they are God’s gift to the election.
We have far more representative states that should go first.
We need a single primary day nationwide. It would get the candidates out and campaigning all around the country and wouldn’t eliminate anyone before the majority of the country got to vote.
In a sense its become the Iowa entitlement that brings huge sums of political money into the state.
Michelle has got as much meat in this article as it is possible to get. A must read!
Eww, how gross, but very fitting
I think that would be a mistake and this election season has shown why. You would be looking at a national result like Iowa's. I want a candidate that can weather a few storms, not just be blessed with sun on one day.
I'd rather see five primary dates four weeks apart. Divide the states into five groups of roughly the same number of delegates. Rotate the order every four years.
Romney and Santorum won because neither has been trashed by the media. Santorum had little support on Free Republic until a week or so ago, which means just like the voters in Iowa FReepers will panic and run from candidate to candidate based on media coverage.
The anti-Santorum articles have already started. Unless most of the others drop out there's a great chance he'll be back in the pack in a couple of weeks, much like happened to Bachmann, Perry, Cain and Gingrich. If we had one primary day we'd be stuck with Romney.
Not anymore.
The “progressives” have seen to that.
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