LOL, yeah. When you don't attend the event, and every other candidate has staff, supporters, and friends present to back them, you don't finish very high. Most of these folks rounded-up people for the purpose of attending and voting in the straw poll (which is entirely normal).
The truly funny part is: Pence isn't running and has said so. I always do get a kick out of the fact that Romney gets about as many votes in every straw poll as he does in that state's primary.......
The second truly funny part is that everyone picked Sarah Palin as their Veep (#2) to their candidate of choice. This tells you all you need to know in several parts:
1.) She is, cumulatively, the most popular figure.
2.) Everybody thinks they'll need her on the ticket.
3.) She doesn't even need to attend to be everyone’s #1 or #2 choice.
Actually pence was the top VP choice...in addition to being the top choice for POTUS.