Iowa Caucus makes the U.S. look and feel like a banana republic both at home and oversees!

the republican debates.

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Under the formulas used to apportion delegates, it is possible that the candidate with the highest percentage of delegate equivalents — that is, the headline “winner” — did not really lead in the “popular vote” at the caucuses. Further, it is possible that a second or third-tier candidate could garner a surprising 10 percent or 12 percent of the popular vote statewide and get zero delegates. (That’s because to be in the running for a delegate a candidate must have support from at least 15 percent of the people at a precinct caucus.) He or she may have done two or three times as well as expected among Iowa’s Democratic voters and get no recognition for it.

"Presidential primaries produce counts of how people actually voted. Iowa’s Democratic caucuses do not."

to suggest the process is flawed, or without merit, when past elections have been decided by the same results, garnered the same way. That said, I'm not comfortable with the winner takes all opinion of so many...based on those same past results. I like to think that the Iowa results scream that this is a nation that is paying attention, wants to be involved in the process, and is not as brain-dead as so many like to infer.

That's what the Iowa caucuses are showing us.

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Under the formulas used to apportion delegates, it is possible that the candidate with the highest percentage of delegate equivalents — that is, the headline “winner” — did not really lead in the “popular vote” at the caucuses. Further, it is possible that a second or third-tier candidate could garner a surprising 10 percent or 12 percent of the popular vote statewide and get zero delegates. (That’s because to be in the running for a delegate a candidate must have support from at least 15 percent of the people at a precinct caucus.) He or she may have done two or three times as well as expected among Iowa’s Democratic voters and get no recognition for it.

"Presidential primaries produce counts of how people actually voted. Iowa’s Democratic caucuses do not."

Wha?

that's what I'm worried about