With the eyes of the western hemisphere trained on the anointed state of Iowa, several media outlets have begun openly questioning the validity of the Iowa caucuses. Earlier in the week, Slate came out swinging the hardest, with a set-up by Jeff Greenfield (“Where the Iowa caucuses went wrong“) followed by a Sunday punch from Christopher Hitchens, whose piece “The Iowa Scam” blasted the “open corruption” of the “undemocratic” caucus system (and finds much to scoff at in this New York Times article). Today’s Washington Post reports that “Not Everyone’s Moved by the Caucus Spirit.” Politico analyzes the drastic inconsistencies of the polls in Iowa. And AP reports that the candidates have resorted to luring Iowa voters with pizza and snowblowers. Share those caucus crusts!