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Inflated Iowa caucuses force candidates to pander

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The White Pages
Published Thursday, January 17, 2008
Every four years, the most successful democracy on planet Earth kicks off its most important election with a quirky, undemocratic semi-event in a small Midwestern state. And every four years, the media flocks to Iowa and portrays the caucuses not as a dubiously necessary oddity but instead as a harbinger of the nation’s electoral will.
#1 By (Anonymous) 10:12am on January 19, 2008

By what set of tests is it possible to show the U.S. is "the most successful democracy on planet Earth"?

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