New Survey: 'Iowa Fatigue' Wearies Nation

Quad City Times:

Despite efforts to evict the two states from the front of the presidential calendar, both managed to hang on for another election cycle that culminates with the Iowa caucuses on Thursday and the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8. As a year of media attention reaches its crescendo, voters in other states are saying enough is enough.

According to a national survey conducted for The Associated Press and Yahoo News, just over half of all voters said New Hampshire and Iowa have an extraordinary amount of influence over who wins the two parties' nominations.

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Comments

[ImmanuelGoldstein]

The Iowa caucus is a joke. It isn't even a real election, it doesn't work like one at all. This whole election process is taking too long and two many backwater states like Iowa and NH have too much power.

[degjack]

I'm sick of a 2-year long presidential campaign. Who needs that much time and information to select a president? I say
2 months of public financing of the campaign and then let's vote! End of story.

[bmermaid]

I've been to Iowa. My Great-Grandparents were from Iowa. I like people from Iowa. But there are virtually no minorities in Iowa. Iowa is not a good representation of our country. I don't care what Iowa thinks.