While the Iowa Straw Poll may have had its uses, such as raising a million bucks for the Iowa GOP to fund its operations through this election cycle [primarily out of the campaign budgets of free-spending candidates], it was a joke as far as Romney is concerned. He spent well over a grand per vote to get the result he got. And he relied heavily on his LDS supporters and the personal connections of his mercenary hacks. He can't reproduce that even for the precinct caucuses, much less for the primaries or in the General.
He expended massive amounts of money for television ads to promote a meaningless straw poll, lying about who he is. He's had that field all to himself, unchallenged by those who have the facts about his record. That absolutely will not continue.
Conservatives know when to keep their powder dry and conserve resources. They also know when it's time to fire at will...and they have the firepower to destroy Mitt Romney's ambitions.
Not just Iowa, EV.
Illinois, Indiana, leading in New Hampshire...
I wonder if next Summer, when Romney is the ‘08 nominee with Thompson or Hunter as his running mate, you’ll still be trying to submarine his campaign?