Iowa means nothing!

[HassleCat]

I seem to recall when it meant a great deal, back when the Clinton campaign thought they had it all wrapped up, when the polls showed her up by a nice margin, when the prognosticators said she had an 80 percent chance of winning, and so on, and so forth. Back then, in a time that now seems like the far distant past, Iowa was going to be the time and the place where Hillary Clinton would separate the wheat from the chaff, and claim her rightful place in history. And we would see Bernie Sanders fold like a wet paper bag, and he would grudgingly make a concession speech and urge everybody to vote for Clinton, and... and... well, many other wondrous things would occur.

Now Iowa means nothing, less than nothing. South Carolina is where the primary really begins, and that is where we will see the wonders and spectacles that nobody ever claimed we would see in Iowa.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. It meant a lot to Barack Obama.....

A whole lot.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Really. Seems to me that you just moved the goal posts.

[kath]

6. I think maybe you missed the sarcasm...

[840high]

11. Yes they did.

[Metric System]

3. Polls have been showing a tight race for weeks, so I don't know what you're babbling about.

[question everything]

4. Iowa means nothing because it is a caucus state where many voters are disenfranchised

If they cannot be at a specific time at a specific place. True for all caucus states, for both parties.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. If what you said is REALLY true........

then why are we paying so much attention to it?

[question everything]

10. Good question

Republicans are already rethinking Iowa being first in the nation.

I don't know how Iowa became first. Neither Iowan nor New Hampshire represent the country as a whole.

Tradition, perhaps.

[VulgarPoet]

7. I hear the goalposts moving tbh

[Live and Learn]

8. Really, now red South Carolina decides the election? WTF? nt

[kath]

13. yep. it's deja vu all over again!

[neverforget]

12. How many days until Hillary wins Iowa?

Nobody "won", it's just too close. Great night for Democrats though!