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2024: Is the End Nigh?

2024 might be the end of the "First in the nation" Iowa caucuses. At least for the Democrats anyway. Over the years I’ve written in different places to different people about the caucuses. Whether I think Iowa should go first is moot, But I find the Caucuses so interesting. I grew up in the 80s and I remember watching the news about the Iowa caucuses and it was as interesting as sports to me. There were about a bunch of unusual names like Bruce Babbitt, Pete DuPont, Al Haig, Dick Gephardt, Ruben Askew, and Ernst Hollings. Caucuses are the fun part of the political process. Let’s face it politics sucks but a candidate running for election is the greatest thing. The future is wide open, dreams are shared and promises are made. No wonder Donald Trump never stopped running for president. The 2020 caucus had the inevitability of feeling doomed. Maybe it was when the final Des Moines Register poll was canceled with the news that not every candidate was being included. It might’