08.02.2020 - 11:01 [ FiveThirtyEight.com ]

Iowa Might Have Screwed Up The Whole Nomination Process

(04.02.2020)

Actually, we had to do more than that. Since the nomination process is sequential — states vote one at a time rather than all at once — we had to determine, empirically, how much the results of one state can affect the rest.

The answer in the case of Iowa is that it matters a lot.