Who cares?

The Iowa caucus is today.  I don't particularly care.  Iowa doesn't have the best record of picking the eventual nominee, on either the R side* or the D side, but that's not what I'm talking about.  What troubles me is that I don't understand why the media turns this into a feeding frenzy when the delegates aren't even pledged.  Let me be perfectly clear ... the caucus results are completely non-binding meaningless; the delegates are free to vote for whomever they want.

* In 2008, McCain (4th) didn't win a single county.  Huckabee (1st) won 74 counties, Romney (2nd) won 24 counties, and Paul (5th) won 1 county.  Fred Thomson came in 3rd.