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Past Iowa caucuses show shaky foresight; Party, voters don't always mesh.(NATION)

Byline: Donald Lambro, THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The winter Iowa caucuses, for all the attention they receive every four years, have a checkered history in selecting presidential nominees.

Now more than a century old, these little-understood, close-knit nominating rituals were largely ignored for most of their history, but have won increasing attention since Jimmy Carter, an unknown former Georgia governor and peanut farmer, won the Iowa contest over five rivals in 1976 and went on to capture the Democratic nomination and the presidency.

But others who did not win the hearts and minds of the voters in this Midwestern state's frigid farm country have won their party's ...

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