Here’s a reason Iowa needs to keep the presidential caucuses. A major media outlet left to its own devices went looking for a “small town” and found
- “this small town of Newnan, about 40 miles southwest of Atlanta”
- “a rapidly growing town of about 40,000 residents” which by 2018 census estimates would tie Marion as the 14th-largest city in Iowa
- in what Wikipedia says is “the 9th-fastest-growing county in Georgia and the 26th-fastest-growing in the country”
- that has every major retail chain, a 10-screen theater, a mall, multiple supermarkets, a major hospital, and multiple new subdivisions (because it’s exurban Atlanta)
- in a three-high-school, 19-elementary-school (county-wide) district with an operational budget of nearly $250 million.
Try again, please.