Why Iowa and New Hampshire Shouldn't Matter - a podcast by Herndon L. Davis

By: Herndon L. Davis
www.herndondavis.com

We can no allow America’s political pendulum to be influenced by the fickle tastes of voters in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s more tradition than an actual mirroring of America reflection that we hold these states as the ideal testing ground in taking America’s political temperature.

Although both states may reflect a cross-section of economic and social classes they are both sorely lacking the ethnic diversity that the rest of the nation is rapidly experiencing. Below are racial and ethnic demographics that strongly suggest a reexamination of the importance of Iowan and New Hampshire: