bachmann. chuck, here s my deep, dark worry about our democracy from events like this. i admit, with up a trop iowans. hear you. at the end of the day a big media bump for people who do well in something that involves what? 25,000, 35,000 people in one idiosyncratic state that will annoy and sort of seal the fate for some of the other folks who won t be able to carry on. is this the way to run a country or a nominating process for one of our great parties? well, i would ask this if not here, if you don t start here, where would you start? in a big state? do you make it so the small states are i make this argument in defending the iowan and new hampshire duopoly in this respect. at our founding, a lot of the compromises that were made in the system was about making sure the large states, virginia and massachusetts, didn t have too much power over the smaller states, like delaware. so that s why they came up with