Democrats oust Iowa from top of presidential calendar
February 6, 2023, 7:26 pm UTCBy ben kamisarDemocrats voted last weekend to say goodbye to Iowa as the first state on their presidential nominating schedule, a move likely to end the state's nearly 50-year history leading up to the Democratic race for president. Iowa has had a strong record of electing Democratic candidates who ultimately win the party's nomination: Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton won the Iowa caucuses the year their party elected them as their presidential candidate. But that was not the case in 2020, when Democrat Pete Buttigieg finally won…
