Iowa's has to be the most unrepresentative primary leading up to the presidential election, and the way it chooses delegates is just as unrepresentative--and therefore irrelevant. The Donald seemed to have a point for once when he snubbed the last debate. Instead, Ted Cruz stole his crowd of supporters.
As for poor Mike Huckabee's comeback act, it didn't come back this time. "We are fighting to the end," he'd assured his followers, which sounded like politicspeak for he wasn't. And sure enough, the Rev./Gov. folded his tent revival after attracting only 2 percent of the caucus-goers' voters.
Strangely enough, the results in white-bread Iowa may announce the emergence of a serious alternative to Senator Cruz--the eloquent Marco Rubio out of Florida with all its electoral votes and, yes, representative population. His campaign bio should be titled A Star is Born.
Meanwhile, on the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders keeps on being his socialist self, complete with the accent and ideology of a street-corner agitator out of Brooklyn. And attracting the college kids by the well-organized legions. The way Clean Gene McCarthy once did. Who says the results in Iowa don't matter? They did Monday.
And now it's on the first real presidential primary, the oldest in the nation: New Hampshire's. Buckle your seat belts, folks. This wild ride has just begun.
Editorial on 02/03/2016