There’s a better starting state than Iowa — and there’s a better answer than debates
“They wanted a big, fluid, multicultural field — they didn’t get it,” says Jeff Roe, a Republican political consultant who ran Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign. “They wanted a new generation of leadership — they didn’t get it. They didn’t get any of the things they wanted.”
And that was before the calamitous Iowa caucuses denied any of the candidates the springboard they’d hoped for, like the one that propelled Obama in 2008. Instead, the story out of Iowa was about how the Democrats — who hold themselves out as the defenders of safe and secure elections — bungled a caucus they had four years to prepare for and damaged the public’s trust in the outcome. Whatever the opposite of “hope and change” was, well, this was it.
The chaos of Iowa did, however, make the strongest case yet for why the Democratic Party’s primary process must be revamped from top to bottom. Here are four ideas.Why invest so much money and manpower in a small, overwhelmingly white state with little significance in the November general election? If Democrats want to build the party of the future, they should replace Iowa with Georgia.
Whoever the Democratic nominee is, the usual choice between “turning out the base” versus “winning over swing voters” is a false one. Trump’s re-election campaign is spending vast sums of money to not only mobilize those who voted for him last time but to also find and register millions of new voters. Democratic operatives say it will take a multiracial movement like the one that elected Obama in 2008 to inspire Democrats and independent voters alike.
The point of a presidential primary is to pick a nominee and set up that candidate for success in the general election. This time around, it can feel as if the opposite has happened. Win or lose in November, a reckoning is in order.
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