The story was specifically about Iowa. You were commenting on an article written about Iowa. And the reporter was having trouble finding people at Trump’s Iowa rallies who would go to the Iowa GOP caucus.
Straw man? No, the main subject...
It’s not only about Iowa, although the author gets around to mentioning Iowa specifics at the end.
The only blurb saying Iowa in the part quoted was “especially in Iowa”, but was about all the early voting states.
You said ““So what you, and all the others saying the same thing, are claiming is that Trump is going to win Iowa handily because of the size of his crowds, right?—
That’s a straw man distraction because I never said 1) he’d win Iowa or 2) anything about his crowd sizes.
You are unsuccessfully trying to make me argue something I never said.
a liberal tactic