Fine, call it whatever you want but 17,000 Iowa Straw Poll voters gave Palin less than 35 votes. That is a very large representative group.
I am calling it exactly what it was : an unrepresentative, tiny group of students of no known antecedents and more than likely a rented mob of far left crazies from moveon.org, who shout out anti-Palin epithats, and you think that is relevant to Republican politics?
17,000 bought and paid for (at $30 at pop). party goers are a “very large representative group” of the GOP? Since when? Tell me, how did John McCain do. In the Iowa straw poll back in 2007? Didn’t Mitt Romney win this straw poll in 2007? What good did that do him in the GOP primaries?
Going. By your reasoning, Ron Paul will come close to winning the GOP the Iowa straw poll, no? If you believe that, I got an ice skiing slope in Florida to sell ya.