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🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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We're roughly one year out from Iowa's catastrophic caucuses, and people are already thinking about the next primary calendar. Amid growing concerns that Iowa voters don't reflect the country, and pushes by Nevada and South Carolina to move up in line, are we watching Iowa — and its influential, historic, weird caucuses — get sidelined? White House correspondent Natasha Korecki, senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian and Scott Bland talk about the future of presidential politics and whether Iowa will lose its crown. Scott Bland is a politics editor at POLITICO.Charlie Mahtesian is a senior politics editor at POLITICO.Natasha Korecki is a White House correspondent for POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today, a war is a ruin, and we're talking about the struggle inside the Democratic Party
0:09.0	to rest control of the primary calendar back from Iowa and New Hampshire.
0:13.6	It's possible that as soon as 2024, Iowa and New Hampshire might not get to vote first
0:21.4	in primaries and caucuses.
0:26.2	It's not as though the earth would stop spinning, and the United States would somehow fall
0:30.8	into ruin if Iowa no longer was the first state where we voted.
0:35.4	You don't think it would trigger the Yellowstone Supervolcanoes, what you're saying.
0:39.5	No, I don't think so.
0:41.0	But there will be consequences.
0:42.4	Right, there will be ripple effects.
0:43.9	Charlie Mitesian Esquire is our senior politics editor, and I'm Scott Blande.
0:49.3	Welcome to Nerdcast.
0:51.6	You know, we've had several generations of politicians and journalists that have had
0:55.3	no idea how we ended up with this cockamamae hair brain system.
0:59.5	So let's dive into said cockamamae hair brain scheme.
1:03.7	Ever since 1972, the Iowa caucuses have been the first electoral test on the road to party
1:10.3	presidential nominations.
1:12.4	Some people argue Iowa is the most important step.
1:15.4	Fun fact listeners, Joe Biden is one of only two presidents since 1972, not two of
1:21.2	one either Iowa or New Hampshire in the primaries.
1:25.0	Bill Clinton is the other, but his race was weird for a lot of different reasons.
1:29.8	How the heck did this all start in the first place?
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