How Iowa Hijacked American Politics

Jeff Greenfield: “Iowa survives and flourishes as a political ritual for the same reason that bad people remain in power and bad policies remain in place: those who benefit from it can make the cost of challenging it too high. If there is no hope of unseating the caucuses from their privileged perch, it’s at least worth understanding how we got here—and at what cost.”

A new Morning Consult poll finds that 50% of Americans “say they would support reducing Iowa and New Hampshire’s influence in the presidential nominating process.”