Was the Iowa caucus as important as the amount of coverage it was given?

[kentuck]

For weeks and months, MSNBC and other cable networks have been covering the caucus in Iowa. When it is all over, very little is settled. There is no clear front runner. There may be more questions now than before the caucus took place.

But to listen to the political pundits in the last several weeks, one might think this was an earth-shaking event that was about to change the world. In the end, very few people participated and it is very different from a primary. The voters seemed to change their loyalties every time the wind changed directions. On the day of the caucus, it was blowing in the direction of Rick Santorum. He was probably "Tebowing" back stage? Thank God and Greyhound they're gone.

[comipinko]

1. Yes, but only because of the coverage it was given.

it is a "tail, dog" thing.

[Autumn]

2. It was about as important as a bucket of warm piss

but the media is all about promoting those nuts.

[MineralMan]

3. Nope, but it was the only game on yesterday.

So, the media went all out for it. When there's only one game on, fans watch that game.

[kentuck]

5. It seemed to be a game more for the pundits...

..than for the candidates or the voters?

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. Yes, because:

a. Even though the Corporate Establishment wants Mittens, they also want high ratings.
b. They would prefer a long, drawn out fight that doesn't touch Mittens--a candidate that has never fully been vetted by the M$M or his rivals in the GOP. I'm still waiting for when Mittens will be taken to task for his flop-flopping and abysmal record when he was governor.

[PoiBoy]

6. Citizens United...

..unleashed a boatload of cash into our political system, totally corrupting our due process to a fair and honest vote...

No matter what the personal ideology, the fact remains that the money is in the system, and the Corporate Media Whores, theirs and ours, are going to grab as much of it as they can... IMO..

[kentuck]

7. Good point.

The media loves Citizens United!

[Peace Patriot]

8. The answer is a resounding "No!"

Much more important is what is happening in the tech basement at ES&S/Diebold, and, beyond that, in Bush Cartel headquarters (wherever that may be), as they decide if the time of forgetting is complete and the time for Bush Junta II is ripe.

Iowa was completely irrelevant to the real decision-makers. The only thing that it was useful for was the impression that it gave that the real decision-makers do not have a designee yet. This may mean that they are still creating and evaluating the narrative that they want to spin around their new 'TRADE SECRET' control of the voting systems throughout the U.S.

Meanwhile, the Corporate Press gets to endlessly spin out rightwing "talking points" to smother all other discussion--"talking points" that are so fascist and so self-serving of the 1% as to be absurd. They trying to artificially make this fascist/corporate agenda the "middle'' of the political spectrum--and bar the REAL discussion that needs to take place, for instance, about dismantling big corporations and seizing their assets for the public good, eliminating money from political campaigns, expanding Social Security and Medicare, public works programs to create jobs and stimulate the economy, strong regulation of banks and jail for the banksters, and so on--and--in my opinion, the most important issue of all--WHO is counting our votes with 'TRADE SECRET' code and virtually no audit/recount controls and how did THAT happen?!

Iowa was "smoke and mirrors." Bullshit.