Jack, if you were paying any attention to the Iowa caucuses, you probably saw traditional media outlets with headlines using words like "landslide," "historic," or "massive" to describe Trump's win.

However, all those headlines are missing a big part of the story—yes, Trump got 50% of the vote, but as a former president and leader of his party, 50% of those who showed up voted against Trump. As Daily Kos staff writer Mark Sumner puts it: The question shouldn’t be why Trump scraped out a bare majority of Republican voters, but why he didn’t win bigger.

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