I heard this, about Iowa

[left-of-center2012]

During the coverage on cable news last night,
someone mentioned that Iowa is 90% white,
and that only 10% of the voters in Iowa participate in the caucuses.

Someone else suggested moving away from Iowa and New Hampshire
as being "the first in the nation to vote"
to regional primaries more representative of who we are as a nation.

[lapfog_1]

1. I don't know the participation or demographics

but I had a hard time picking out any person of color when the cable news people were breathlessly dashing between one group of white people to the next group of white people.

Pete pulled a Trumpism in that during his victory speech, some clever campaign worker found 3 black women and put them right behind him on the stage... in fact it looked like everyone on the stage behind him was female. Purely random I'm sure.

[left-of-center2012]

3. "breathlessly dashing between one group of white people to the next group of white people"

[pamdb]

2. getting rid of those stupid caucuses

The article I read mentioned Michigan and Florida. More big cities, more diverse.

AND GET RID OF THOSE DAMN CAUCUSES. It's so 19th century. Just make everything
primaries. Honestly.

[Wounded Bear]

7. They work for small villages and towns...

Not so much in cities and populated areas. Too many in the room people enhances the cat herding fustercluck effect.

[obamanut2012]

4. Florida, California, Virginia, even Michigan or North Carolina

[denem]

6. Joisey !

[northoftheborder]

5. Caucuses should not be allowed anywhere, and a diversified swing state should be first.