Define 'major'.
The CPAC poll has always been a major one and this one is considered major because it's the first of the year outside of the beltway. Also, the south is one the most GOP friendly section of the country anymore - if not THE friendliest with the midwest/west going leftward for years now.
People need to wake up to the fact that Ron Paul is a force for liberty that, for the first time since Reagan in GOP politics, has a young, collegiate following as well as an old one. The good news for big government GOP'ers is that he probably won't run so that his son can in a few years.