Iowa's importance in the Presidential primaries should be reduced to allow a more national primary.

So your saying you live in California correct? ok. Well we are all Americans we believe in one head one vote, So I don't think it's fair that you say your vote is more important than that of another person. Now one person one vote would translate into a national primary election, but thats impractical. The candidates would have to be all over the nation. Travel cost would be huge and for candidates who lack the budget their message can't get across. Indeed a national Primary election would see the richer candidates with huge leverage and that would discourage little known or poorly funded candidates. Not just becuase of travel cost but also they would have to run national advertisement which is a huge dent in ones campaign budget. Indeed its taking a grassroots campaign and shattering it. So what we do is follow the same pattern we do when electing our president, we make it a state function with the exception that the primaries take place at different times. This is becuase the Primaries are a function of the state government and the state party headquarters, not a function of the Federal government. Remember we are talking about parties who's organization is wholly outside the federal government- you will not find the mentioning of a political party in the constitution. Because its a function of the state government and state party headquarter they try and decide whats best for the party. And having a progressive campaign that starts somewhere and ends somewhere else is the most economical in spreading the message of the candidates. So if you were going to start somewhere and end somewhere , what would be your starting point? Well thats how we get to the fact that Iowa holds the first caucus, because technically New Hampshire holds the first Primary- the difference is just the selection process. Iowa is the starting point becuase its a small state, by allowing candidates to focus there , it gives voters a really good chance of having a one on one encounter with the candidates. This is good because its give more democratic opportunity for the election. Candidates with little money have almost the same opportunity with candidates that have a huge campaign budget. This allows for that grass-roots campaign that can really take off. And the more supporters the get the more publicity they get. People do not want to vote for a candidate that they don't think has a chance of winning, thats called candidate viability. And if you wouldn't vote for a person because he's not viable you certainly wouldn't give him your money. But by making the small state of Iowa (and New Hampshire) the center of attention, we really give those unknown candidates a better chance to take on the bigger guys. If they have a good message, and their campaign begins to take off, their voter viability will go up, that means more money as people donate to their campaign. With money and a good viability they can leave Iowa with good field position to tackle on the other states. By having Iowa first the election becomes more fair, richer and more known candidates are pushed to be on the same level as unknown candidates. Which makes the election about your message and your ideals not the amount of money in the bank. Mike Huckabee is the best example of this. Before Iowa is not over and already he is in a great position to take on other primaries across the nation. Yet before he was not even known by more than a few percent of the population (outside the Arkansas-Alabama-Louisiana region), much less had much backing. But he was able to leverage that face-to -face campaign, really leverage the equal opportunity campaigning and now he's not only first in Iowa, but becuase his voter viability went up he is first or second in almost every national poll and the caucus hasn't even taken place. If he can win the caucus he will set the tone for other states. And as for other candidates, some are wishing to just pull third in Iowa because that gives voters in other states the confirmation that he has a shot to win this thing if you rally behind him.