I've been saying for years it's absurd that, for intents and purposes, the yokels of Iowa pick the presidential candidates. Christopher Hitchens of Slate calls it a 'scam,' and I have to say that's a pretty good word for it:
'So, once you subtract the breathless rhetoric about "surge" and "momentum" and (oh, Lord) "electability," it's finally admitted that the rest of the United States is a passive spectator while about half of 45 percent of 85,000 or so Republican caucus voters promote a provincial ignoramus and anti-Darwinian to the coveted status of "front-runner" or at least "contender." '
UPDATE: Iowa backlash continues: 'The Rolling Stones are more historic than the freaking Iowa Caucuses.'
