Given that the Iowa caucus is basically a media-generated phenomenon that wouldn't matter at all if not for the hype, it's a little strange that it's in Iowa in January. All one hears this week as a journalists are complaints from colleagues in Des Moines or Nashua about how cold it is. Under the circumstances, surely everyone could get behind something like a first-in-the-nation Hawaii Caucus. That sounds more fun for pundits and politicos alike.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/snow-falling-on-pundits/47708/
