To: Mike Henry

From: Mark Mellman

Re: Does the path to the nomination run through Iowa?

Mike, you have succeeded as a great campaign manager by forging new strategies and tactics, so, it makes sense to question the received “Iowa” orthodoxy in charting your boss’s course to the nomination.

While whoever leaked your memo should be shot (metaphorically), you make important points, but ignore others that I think militate against abandoning Iowa, at least for now.

Beyond the cost, in dollars and candidate time, your central thesis is the “collapse” of the “old system