This is why our presidential selection process is so FUBAR.
Iowa and Red Hampshire.
For better or worse - these two insignificant states have a major influence on who will be the prez in January of 2017.
All the polls and debates leading up to Iowa and Red Hampshire, and all the primaries AFTER are all tied to these two states.
It sucks, but it is what it is.
The RNC said they were going to fix the primary process so that Iowa and New Hampshire were’t going to be king makers. I think that was 2008 or 2012. Still waiting.