[Sherman Logan]

It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started.

Same to a lesser degree with NH.

[re_nortex]

It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started.

That's a very astute observation. My work takes me frequently to Iowa and other parts of the upper Midwest. To this day, that "populist progressive" philosophy still lingers from the days of RINO "Fighting" Bob La Follette and his ilk as well as the grange movement. I still come across some people my age (approaching 70) up there who speak fondly of Henry Wallace for his "work" during his reign in the USDA.

I'd sure like to see Oklahoma play a pivotal role in the primaries. It's the one state that had not a single county go for O'Bambi in 2008. Our neighbor across the Red River has two of the most reliably Conservative members of the Senate. And, when I venture up north on I-35, it does "send a thrill up my leg" when I see signs like this at the filling stations:

[Night Hides Not]

It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president.

Any state with a lib senator like Harkin should have no influence in choosing the Republican nominee for President.

[The Shrew]

It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president. Any candidate with reasonable notions with regard to agricultural subsidies (farm welfare) will get clobbered and probably knocked out of the race before it really gets started.

Same to a lesser degree with NH.

Sums it up rather nicely. Thank you.

TS

[niteowl77]

It’s our own fault for allowing IA to have such enormously disproportionate influence in our choosing of a president.

Here's an Iowan who heartily agrees. Iowa, however, encourages the worst that either party can offer and the various "worsts" will make sure it remains "first."

Mr. niteowl77