The most important day in politics

...for 10,000 people. That's right, today is the Iowa Caucus. For a state of 2.9 million people, we sure are devoting a lot of time and money. And out of that 2.9m, how many people will actually participate in this most arcane of all political polling events? Basically it works like this....Fred, Sally-Sue, Uncle Elijah and Aunt Ester all go to the local barn, stand around, and at 7pm they go stand in the corner of the candidate they like--but even better is the fact that this is meant to be a peer pressure environment. "Sure, that might be the candidate who's stance on the issues best reflect yours, but this is the COOL corner." I just don't get it.

Iowa--the state of 100 sqaures. Looks like a raibow quilt, eh?

Surpassing the peer pressuring in lunacy...the combined money spent on all television ads equates to about $200 per person in Iowa. Assume that only 10% will actually caucus, that's $2,000 for each cauc (my term for "one who caucuses", pronounced like "cock"). Ridiculous. I think the candidates would get more swing votes if they just cut a $1,000,000 check to a local school.