re: #371 Patricia Kayden

Great point. One day when I’m bored I’m going to look into how it was decided which states got to hold primaries first. How did Iowa and New Hampshire get top billing? Things that make you go hmmmmm.

In 1972, the Democratic Party made changes to the way they did nominations in the states. Iowa, with one of longest and most complex series of caucuses, decided to start early and effectively go first. That’s literally it - the only reason they are the bellwether for American presidential elections is because they had a more asinine process than anybody else in the country.