In this case, the straw poll was a scam set up by the Iowa Republican Party. You have to have “delegates” to the event to vote, and each delegate has to pay like 50 dollars - so the campaigns would have to raise the money to “pay” their straw voters.
Iowa is full of itself and full of “it” as well.....
So each of these guys who show up to pretend to be in the running...mostly have to have a faithful and very loyal pay-master to help pay up forty or a hundred folks to pay $50 at the door to enter? Man, that’s a four-star scam. Why can’t the Republicans in Alabama run something like this?
If I may suggest it...can we just get a data-stream of the speeches, and have a free straw-poll off Youtube?