The Iowa Effect
http://www.time.com/time/election2004/printout/0,8816,574914,00.html
The caucuses make and unmake candidates — and this time is no
different. Can Dean beat Gephardt — and the expectations too?
By KAREN TUMULTY/JEFFERSON
Who made Iowa so important, anyway? Four years ago, the ambitious
Governor of another small state dismissed Iowa and its clumsy caucuses
as a waste of time. "If you look at the caucuses system, they are
dominated by the special interests in both parties, [and] the special
interests don't represent the centrist tendencies of the American
people," Vermont's then governor Howard Dean said on an obscure
Canadian public-affairs program. The caucuses can stretch on all
night, Dean noted, and he expressed wonderment that average people
would even bother with them: "I can't stand there and listen to
everyone else's opinion for eight hours about how to fix the world."
Iowa
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