God bless you Tom Harkin---no one wants to go to Iowa in February

"You must be older than the last uncontested Iowa presidential caucus to drink in this establishment."

Iowa is, of course, tremendously important owing to its first-in-the-nation status, but in 1992, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin was among the Democratic contenders, and his rivals all decided they'd be better off conceding the state entirely than to lose a landslide early in the process.