Redux redux (redux)

NEW: The non-Bernie candidates are fracturing the Iowa moderate vote

Yet none of them wants to defer to the other

“Why would I get out while he’s still in?” @amyklobuchar said of @MikeBloomberg

w @alexburnsNYT on the makings of a GOP ‘16 redux >https://t.co/4mMr9f5cKv

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 27, 2020

I do love these stories where the war is lost before the first shot can be fired. I'm old enough to remember when there weren't primaries to pick Presidential candidates. I don't remember the winning argument for primaries being:  "Let Iowa caucus and then we'll all just accept those results or we'll never win!" I'm pretty sure the idea was to let everyone vote so the consensus candidate would have the best chance in general.

Hillary Clinton got 48% of the vote, to Trump's 46%. The problem in 2020 will be the problem of 2016: turnout.

Ted Cruz won Iowa in 2016, btw.