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Article: Iowa Stubborn.(Iowa caucuses and presidential campaigns)

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February 7, 2000
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IOWA'S precinct caucuses and a Mafia protection racket: The comparison is irresistible. In both cases, participation is almost always mandatory, there are no real benefits, large sums of money are wasted, and everyone keeps his mouth shut because too many thugs have a piece of the action.

Let's carry the analogy forward: It's time for someone to start singing to the cops about Iowa, because too many people are getting hurt.

Texas governor George W. Bush, this year's Iowa champion, should pray that the caucuses are meaningless, because if they have any meaning at all, it's as a predictor of ultimate defeat. No Republican winner of the Iowa caucuses has ...

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