If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe
that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic
nomination for president. "Why Iowa? "offers the definitive account
of those early weeks of the campaign season: from how the Iowa
caucuses work and what motivates the candidates' campaigns, to
participation and turnout, as well as the lingering effects that
the campaigning had on Iowa voters. Demonstrating how "what happens
in Iowa" truly reverberates throughout the country, five-time Iowa
precinct caucus chair David P. Redlawsk and his coauthors take us
on an inside tour of one of the most media-saturated and
speculated-about campaign events in American politics.
Considering whether a sequential primary system, in which early,
smaller states such as Iowa and New Hampshire have such a
tremendous impact is fair or beneficial to the country as a whole,
the authors here demonstrate that not only is the impact warranted,
but it also reveals a great deal about informational elements of
the campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this sequential
system does confer huge benefits on the nominating process while
Iowa's particularly well-designed caucus system--extensively
explored here for the first time--brings candidates' arguments,
strengths, and weaknesses into the open and under the media's
lens.
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