The Iowa Caucuses Have Always Been Terrible

On yesterday's Reason Roundtable podcast, my colleague Matt Welch asked an open-ended question: What outcome do you hope for from the Iowa caucuses, however unrealistic?

The answer I decided not to give because it seemed too glib was: It's a shame they can't all lose.

Yet here we are.

It's the morning after the caucuses, and, thanks to a combination of rule changes and (probably avoidable) technological foibles that resulted from a poorly tested, dysfunctional results-reporting app, there are still no official results.

The state Democratic Party,...