Yes, but the GOP-e never started the IA caucuses. It just works to their Dole-like benefit.
Yes. Democrats reformed the Iowa caucuses starting in 1972 in order to blunt the influence of THEIR establishment-types, yielding McGovern and Carter.
“You can’t cheat an honest electorate.” Reform all you want. As long as enough people want to ‘legally’ steal from and coerce others, no nominating system is going to make a difference.
How do you figure? Santorum won the caucus, Romney came in second, and Ron Paul got all the delegates? Huckabee won in ‘08.