this headline is spot-on. i don't understand why anyone takes straw polls at all seriously. they're not scientific, and can't be said to really measure anything. in terms of accuracy, they're somewhere around the clickable polls found on internet sites or survey's sponsored by investor business daily. they have about as good a track record too (do you remember when john mccain came in at the bottom of the 2007 iowa straw poll, dooming his chances to get the republican nomination? i didn't think so)
despite their terrible record for predicting anything, straw polls results from partisan gatherings are regularly reported as if they mean something.
