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Okay, so let's talk about the Iowa primary.

You say there's no primary. Iowa has a caucus, right? Well, that's true. But 104 years ago,

Iowa did have a primary, or at least they tried a primary. Primaries were the thing back then, and they were accelerated when Theodore Roosevelt,

the ex-president, decided to challenge the current president, William Howard Taft, in a Republican contest.

And so, Friends of Roosevelt and States across the country, more than 20, developed primaries in order

to pick the preferential preference.

This would counter chaff's advantage, particularly in the Republican Party you had a number of sort of

rotten borough southern delegates that were never going to be able to carry their state in the

election but nonetheless could influence the presidential

nomination and usually these were people who had been given jobs by Taft or other

presidents so they were loyal to Taft Roosevelt would counteract this with the authority of the people in primaries.

I didn't quite get around to the primary craze of 1912, but they passed a bill in 1913 so that the state might have an influence on the

1916 nomination contest.

So they made the right arrangements for elections in the various counties.

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