Iowa Caucuses are at Stake This Election

David Yepsen had a good article (yes, I just wrote that) last week about the future of the Iowa Caucuses.

Those rules fights will continue if Obama loses. Unlike Republicans, Democrats won't decide their 2012 process at their convention. They'll continue to discuss and haggle over it for months. But unlike the last rules fight, Iowa's critics will have more ammunition to make the argument that the state's leadoff position doesn't work for the party, since, once again, it elevated a candidate too liberal or too bad at campaigning to win the general election.You can also bet that the Clintons will be out to torpedo Iowa's caucuses. She would most likely be a candidate again in 2012. After her poor finish in Iowa and other caucus states, the Clintons became critics of caucus processes. You can look for them to side with the anti-Iowa and anti-caucus factions in those rules fights.

While all Americans have a lot at stake in this presidential election, Iowa also has its caucuses at stake.