You must be right, it is meaningless. At least if you don’t know much of the history. It is not so much who wins the straw poll, it is who doesn’t win the straw poll.
Well, I never suggested it was useless. LOL Proof being Pawlenty deciding to drop out this morning.
And I’m aware enough of the history to know that until 1999 you didn’t even have to have legal residence in Iowa to vote. I consider the straw polls pretty unreliable prior to that (Pat Robertson, anybody?).