Iowa Forgot the Whole Point of the Caucus
The state got itself in trouble by deploying an untested app in a misbegotten attempt to rationalize itself.
by Andrew Ferguson
Feb 04, 2020
3 minutes
is the word overworked reporters and analysts invariably reach for when they’re trying to describe the Iowa caucus, one of the last great anachronisms of American politics. How’s this for quirky? What got Iowa in trouble—to the point where many party poo-bahs are now calling for the death of the caucus tradition altogether—is that it was trying to stop being Iowa, by deploying an untested app in a misbegotten attempt to rationalize itself. Trying not to be quirky, in other words, Iowa seized up with a
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