Good try, but that dog won’t hunt.
Romney won the 2007 Ames straw poll, McCain just barely got 1%. Proof positive it means absolutely nothing whatsoever.
It is a political no brainer no one has argued that this straw poll does not pick the winner but it *can* make or break somebody.
I am wiling to bet that if Sarah Palin would have announced and ran and won this means nothing, poll. It would have meant something and have been in breaking news 3 times?