I've been saying for years that I don't know how and when we decided to let Iowa start the presidential campaign season. I realize no candidate will side with me, as you get trounced in Iowa, it's tough to move on (but not impossible). Now that U.S. Rep. Steve King (R-IoWTF) has gone even beyond his own idiotic and bigoted b.s. by claiming that humans somehow need rape and incest, maybe it's time to look at who we allow to make big decisions.
Simple solution: we have 50 states. Each 4 year cycle, five states get the first Tuesday. Two weeks later, the next five get their time. This goes on and each 4 year cycle, the groups of five rotate up. Once your group reaches the top, you start over at the bottom, getting the tenth place, then 9th, etc. Rotate so that five different states get to set the tone each presidential election, then rotate so that every state gets their turn.
The fact that King got elected is awful. That he gets re-elected should start a national discussion about how we let a few small states set the tone, and whether it isn't more democratic and smarter to take turns with this stuff. It's too important to allow it to be decided by a state where a member of Congress seems to think inbreeding and sexual violence are acceptable. And no, I'm not saying all Iowans think that way. Just that enough are OK with this kind of cretin that maybe we stop letting them have so much power. Especially since I cannot see any rationale for giving it to ANY one state in the first place.