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The Gist

The Lesson of Iowa's Chaos

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, the Iowa caucuses was created to disenfranchise babysitters. In the interview, Mike talks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about his new book, Imperfect Union: How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War. They discuss the ways in which the Frémonts navigated their world, and the modern currents found in their story. In the spiel, the Iowa caucuses were a mess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following recording may contain explicit language.

0:02.8

I can't get more explicit than May.

0:05.6

Let's just say it may.

0:07.4

["Memory of the

0:30.1

There are no perfectly representative states.

0:33.4

There are less perfect states and we clearly are in one.

0:37.8

Given the Iowa25 Dragosses.

0:40.0

The blame for the Iowa car crashes can be laid at the feet of an app and at State

0:45.9

Party hierarchy and the media and demographic, and fried food.

0:51.3

You know, state fair got to eat corned dogs to getting good with the locals.

0:54.7

But the real reason why the Iowa caucus as Kingmaker is a mess that needs to be jettisoned

1:01.3

isn't that the state has too many white people or too many old people.

1:05.1

David Lee and Hart of the Times writing today, Iowa should never go first again.

1:10.2

It should never go first because it is an overwhelmingly white, disproportionately older

1:15.6

state that distorts the presidential nominating process.

1:19.0

Yes, it shouldn't go first, but that's not why.

1:21.6

It shouldn't go first, not because of demographics, but because of democracy.

1:27.4

It doesn't have too many white people.

1:29.6

It has too few properly enfranchised people.

1:33.4

Here are some innovations of the vote and voting that people who want to expand the vote

1:41.8

and vote and people who believe in democracies adhere to the secret ballot.

1:47.3

Motor voter, mail in voting, flexible polling times, polls open late, polls open early,

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