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The author discusses the problem with the caucuses in the U.S. for the presidential primary campaign in 2012. He notes that various states were embarrassed by confusion with their caucuses run by political parties including Iowa, Nevada, and Maine. He says that states invested in new machines for accurate vote counts as caucuses posed faulty counts. He cites Maine Senate president Kevin Raye stating that caucus must be eliminated and a state-run primary would have better results than caucuses.

The article discusses the results of Public Opinion Strategies' poll for the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). According to the poll, majority of the voters from Iowa would not probably elect an anti-wind candidate in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Moreover, the poll revealed that voters from Iowa support the use of renewable energy resources such as wind energy.