A Republican who won NH but lost Iowa hasn’t won the presidency since 1980. We just tried two of them and they both failed. NH is apparently the least religious state in the country, a poor representative of the country’s electorate as a whole.
The last Republican who won Iowa and lost NH that we ran in the general was Bush in 2000, who won.
So now that stuff matters?
After Iowa, no Cruz supporters cared how most of the people in the GOP that won it, lost the nomination.
Now we need to pay attention to past results?