And irrelevant. The biggest winner in Iowa was, of course, Huckabee but McCain's surprisingly good finish was good news for him. Fred did well enough to continue on but I'm sure that he is disappointed. Romney was the big loser on the Republican side. His huge investments of time, money, and staff got few results.
Agreed. But it was still a misallocation of assets by the campaign. And they didn't do a good job of managing expectations.