Poll: Iowa and NH are great places for the 1st presidential contests. Also terrible ones.

Iowa and New Hampshire are great places to hold the opening presidential caucuses and primary, most Americans agree. Also, terrible ones.

That was the decidedly mixed message from a USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll exploring whether the two small states, both overwhelmingly white, should continue to hold the out-sized influence on presidential politics that they have for nearly a half-century. CONT.

Susan Page, USA Today