The Polling Company’s Kellyanne Conway told the CPAC audience that 42 percent of
the voters were students and a plurality of voters were between the ages of 18 and 25.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/28/rand-paul-wins-the-cpac-straw-poll/
Don’t mistake winning the CPAC straw poll as the first step toward winning the GOP’s
presidential nomination. In CPAC’s 41-year history, only three poll winners on record
have gone on to become Republican presidential nominees: Ronald Reagan (who won twice),
George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney.