iowa caucus

Death to the Iowa Caucus

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 23, 2021

While Democrats are trying to fix this nation's broken political system while they hold the extremely narrow trifecta, they have in-house work to do too. Top of the agenda: ending the Iowa Caucus playing its ridiculously outsized role in determining the presidential candidate. Iowa's decades-long...

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Our Technological Fetishism Has Real Life Consequences

By Erik Loomis

On February 4, 2020

The idea that Iowa Democrats could just drop an untested app into the middle of the caucuses and nothing could go wrong says a whole heck of a lot about.

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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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