Iowa is no more representative of the U.S. than California or New York. Pancake breakfasts? Ethanol subsidies? Rick Santorum? There is no good reason to have the nominating contests go through Iowa first other than tradition. An ideal system would rotate the states that chose first.

Don’t be a superficial dick. I’m pretty sure the OP’s actual point was that Iowa isn’t a valid representation of a cross section of the US.

It's widespread by definition.

As someone who

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