Opinion | Take That, America

Well, people, Iowa has spoken. Peeped, anyhow.

Every time the nation gets to select its next president, all eyes turn to Iowa, which traditionally has the first word on what the public wants.

This is a state with approximately 1 percent of the national population. How could we not pay attention?

Next week, we’ll be obsessed with the voting in New Hampshire, which has less than half as many people as Iowa.

So goes the current caucus-and-primary system — on the Republican side, at least. The Democrats changed theirs after 2020, when the Iowa count crashed and burned. It took days to get the final results, which gave Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders the lead, followed by Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, who came in at a pathetic 15.8 percent.