.........is not a good thing when it doesn't work the first time. It's also important to look at the facts on the ground and to learn from them in a zero sum game like politics. It is very clear that Iowa Republican politics focuses on a top down model. The top of the ticket gets and spends most of the money, most of the energy and most of the control over the state wide effort. Any review of money raised and how and by whom spent irrefutably demonstrates that historical pattern. ... The complete lack of correlation between assets expended and vote returned clearly evidences the failure of the top down model that we have employed for the last several cycles.