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Disenfranchises people. is that a fair argument and is there any chance at all that at some point the caucus system goes away? >> well, the caucus system won't go away voluntarily. it will go away when candidates stop wanting to come to iowa and the media stops covering it. the dnc could at some point say iowa, you're not going to be first anymore or we're not going to allow caucuses. that will not stop iowa from having caucuses. it won't stop iowa from having an event. it's really going to be the candidates and the media who decide that. here is what iowa brings to the process. let's say we h...

Of the caucuses. they've tried a couple of things. there were some satellite caucuses as a pilot project four years ago, just a very few sites. it went okay. iowa had a telephonic caucus four years ago for overseas military and also other people working overseas. actually that process went fairly smoothly. they wanted to expand that as well but the dnc shut it down. they had concerns about the security of that and whether it possibly could be hacked. so iowa did just have to default to expanding their satellite caucus process which is an improvement. as you said, it won't solve all the questio...

Going down. >> david: the one she needs to be most concerned about is in the last ten days she's only been up in one poll in iowa and new hampshire which are far more important than these national polls we get to hear about every day. all of that said, here we are once again with the democratic primary caucus system in our party that says we we should get rid of the electoral college because one man, one vote is what counts. why don't they have a national primary? why is iowa and new hampshire getting to dictate who the nominee of the democratic party is? >> katie: that's been brought up a som...

Primary election. >> bret: she said she doesn't do polls, but something tells me she follows them because there's a new one out in iowa from "the des moines register" and cnn that has elizabeth warren up. at margin of error, it's essentially tied but the first polls showing her up there. if you look to this poll, the favorability rating among the three democrats -- and this is striking too, 75% favorable for elizabeth morgan and there you see the top three. here's the real clear politics average of recent polls. national iowa and new hampshire and you see warren on the rise in iowa and obvious...

A lot of people are excited for the polk county democrat steak fry in iowa. the steak's going to be great, but that's not the only reason people are excited because the event is expected to include a huge crowd including 17 democratic presidential candidates. >> why is iowa so important? i know a lot of people might be wondering that. this is the starting line essentially in presidential politics. the caucus can indicate how a candidate can perform throughout the election season. most of all, iowa gets attention from candidates because the caucus system is so hands-on. it attracts a lot of peo...