Perry Revisits Iowa in First Official Campaign Swing

[TexasTowelie]

DES MOINES – Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry's entry into the 2016 GOP presidential fray barely registered on the local evening news here the day after his official campaign launch. No mention of his back-to-back events planned Saturday in the state with the first major electoral event of the nominating process.

Perry, after all, is playing the long game, and his arrival isn’t really news anymore.

“If I sit down to dinner with my family, I expect to see Rick Perry at the table. He’s been here that often,” said Matt Strawn, former chairman of the Iowa Republican Party.

Perry has invested months in Iowa, meeting with voters, caucus chairs, business and religious leaders, Strawn said, but he's the 10th Republican to announce a run for the White House, and Iowans know they have options.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/06/perry-chooses-iowa-first-official-campaign-stop/

[rurallib]

1. Hi - i am from Iowa - please keep your trash at home. Thank you

[TexasTowelie]

2. Question:

Which idiot in Iowa thought that having the first GOP caucus in the country was a good idea? FWIW, I feel your pain--we've put up with Perry for 14 years.

[rurallib]

3. I think that all happened back in the 70s

Really not sure. Think it was a reaction to the machine type politics in the Democratic party that brought us Humphrey in 1968. Many people say RFK would have been nominated had he lived. Many others say HHH had enough votes sewed up way before any primaries were run - that is my position.
Edit: what one party thought up both adapted. You will note that both parties guard that first in nation status to their death here and work together to keep it.

Democrats actually take the caucus seriously up here.
Republicans have turned it into a process to pick a bishop or a pope for their party.