Probably the following BBC report explains:
Extracted from BBC News item :
Iowa: the reality check for candidates
The BBC's North America Editor Justin Webb explains why this sparsely populated, rural state is so crucial for White House contenders.
Why should our presidential election be so heavily influenced, other Americans sometimes ask, by 100,000 or so people who actually turn up to the Iowa caucuses, most of them white and most of them over 55?
The honest answer is that Iowa and New Hampshire, and the other handful of early votes, for all their unfairness, at least give the system a connection with local communities.
2007-12-29
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