Yes, the problem is that the selection of a candidate is intricately tied to their performance in the Iowa caucus. Causality is irrelevant if we agree that the demographics of Iowans, especially those participating in the primaries, are not representative of the nationwide voting demographics. No debate there.
Yeah but if you only care about white people and mostly care about males theeeeeeeeennnnnn. Iowa it is! Edit: I appreciate that kleinbl00 and I share the same sentiment here.
$45m spent on political advertising in Iowa so far. For 170,000 participants. Every dude out there tweeting his results because the Democratic Party can't get their shit together enough to tabulate 170,000 votes? $264 per voter.
:O! If it costs $1 to count each vote (hahhaha, lucrative!), and my math is right, ...sweating, panting... that's $170k. That'd be less than 0.4% of what was spent trying to influence the voters. The DNC is already handing Trump an ensemble of weapons with which to de-legitimize the democratic candidate. Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.
So sad that Bloomberg is trying to steal momentum from Bernie's populist movement with multi-million dollar Superbowl ads. When I hear the pundits say, "You know, I really think Bernie has a shot at the nomination...", I just think to myself, "Were you dead in 2016?".