Honesty from Iowa

“An Iowa-eye view

"I think Iowans are spoiled rotten," Kathy Potts says with a smile.

She moved here from Mississippi more than a dozen years ago, and believes Iowans don't understand what a unique opportunity it is to meet presidential candidates face-to-face every four years.

"There's an old joke about a New Hampshire farmer and an Iowa farmer," she says, referring to the nation's first two contests. "The New Hampshire farmer asks the Iowan, 'Have you decided who you're going to vote for yet? And the Iowan says, 'No, I've only met them each three times.' "”