Anyone consider that Dean may have lost Iowa due to Caucus rules?

[peabody71]

Hear me out.
Iowa caucus rules are not very Democratic.
Any given precinct only got delegates in direct proportion to the amount of voters who voted in the last major election.
My view is that in the rural, older, more conservative areas of the state, people vote more consistently. They are also not core Dean supporters but they got a higher proportion of delegate votes due to the higher turnout in the last election.
Which means that in the more urban, more liberal, more Dean leaning areas the delegates he received did not reflect his actual support.

Does that make sense to anyone?
Plus with the media anointing him as the front runner, the appearance that he did poorly was a one two punch. Not a fair picture of actual Dean support by any stretch of the imagination.
It just figures that the media hyped the Caucus the way they did. It worked perfectly to potentially destroy Deans chances.