Would it be rude to point out that Rick Santorum actually won Iowa last time around? Sure it was close. Sure, only a small fraction of the GOP participates in the overhyped Iowa caucuses. Sure, it looked like Mitt was winning at the end of the evening when the news cycle ended. But the actual result is that Santorum won by a razor-thin 34 votes even if no delegates were allocated at the time.
The media ran with a Romney win, too.
/johnny
And this small fraction doesn’t select the candidate. They don’t even select the delegates to the convention. The caucuses in Iowa are literally meaningless.