[Dr. Sivana]

I guess it was H.W, because he was with Reagan.

Nah, he finished near the back of the field in Iowan (corn guys wanted Dole, conservatives backed Robertson). I was in school and supported Jack Kemp. Kemp did not know how to run/fund-raise a national campaign, and stayed in 5%-land. George the Elder veered right ... and STAYED right for the general election, until he got full of himself for '92, and took the bump from the Iraq invasion as a general approval, and completely misread the Perot candidacy. That campaign will be a study in failure for eons to come.

[Gaffer]

So, Iowa is the be-all and end-all of actuality, huh?

It’s perception. In the end, who got the nomination?