Hello and welcome to the political nerd cast where we bring you inside the stories of the White House

and geek out on the amazing circus of American politics. Hi, this is Senior Politics Editor Charlie Matessian sitting in

much deserved breather, I think in Las Vegas.

I'm here today with Scott Land.

Hello and Katie Glick.

Hi.

And what we're going to do this episode is a little bit different.

We're not going to talk data points.

We are going to take questions from our listeners.

So we're going to hear from a couple of our listeners and we're going to read their

questions on the air and try to answer them as best we can.

And just to pop in with an answer to a question that we've been getting a lot, the

nerd cast continues.

The election is over, but the nerd cast soldiers on, and we love producing this podcast we love

hearing from all of our listeners about it and there's going to be plenty of

politics to talk about in perpetuity it looks like. Then let's get right to it.

We have Sam on the line is going to ask a question about Iowa.

Hey, as an Iowa native and one who proudly cast his first ever vote for Obama during the

caucuses in 2008, I'm wondering how the nomination process may change in 2020.

You know, we hear every cycle we hear calls for the process to be

shaken up that Iowa and New Hampshire have too much clout and they aren't

representative of the country as a whole but at least on the Democratic side the the populist wave reared its head early and didn't

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