Speaking on CNN after the Iowa caucuses had become a debacle, members of a panel on CNN decided on one salient reason that Iowa caucuses should not hold the position of prominence they do: too many white people in Iowa.
CNN commentator and former Barack Obama administration official Van Jones, who served as Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs and also was a co-host for CNN’s “Crossfire,” posited, “I just think that the idea of the caucus has failed to meet the viability threshold. The idea of the caucus itself has failed to meet the viability threshold because we’ve all been saying the whole time, ‘Why Iowa in the first place? It’s 90% white.’ When you have a party as diverse as this to be in a state that’s not as diverse is terrible. People ain’t going to be able to vote and go home. I don’t like caucuses in the first place, but if you can’t even deliver on your one job … you have only one job, Iowa.”
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