Iowa without "first-caucus-state" status

[solarstorm]

Do you think Iowa would voted differently if it were late-primary state?

[Sumner 1868]

I don't see how the primary timing would effect general elections.

[morgieb]

I don't see how the primary timing would effect general elections.

The one thing I can see is that parties give more attention to the early states (e.g. NH/IA), so whoever does well there can set up a lot of infrastructure in the state.

Although, South Carolina isn't competitive.....

[solarstorm]

I don't see how the primary timing would effect general elections.

All the candidates had been campaigning throughout Iowa, they spent reams of money, they promoted their party, the media provided the US with coverage of that state, and so on.
No states are canvassed more thoroughly for votes than Iowa and New Hampshire.

[TDAS04]

I don't think its voting patterns would be very different.

[IceSpear]

Maybe slightly more Republican. Iowa is on the border between the Democratic friendly Midwest and the solidly Republican plains, so it's not too much of an aberration for it to be a swing state.

[bobloblaw]

Most importantly we wouldnt have to put ethanol in our cars

[andrew_c]

It's the demographics and geography of Iowa that make it a swing state, not the timing of primary elections.