Straw Poll ... Huh?

So here are the Iowa straw poll results:

Mitt Romney -- 4516 (31.5%)
Mike Huckabee -- 2587 (18.1%)
Sam Brownback -- 2192 (15.3%)
Tom Tancredo -- 1961 (13.7%)
Ron Paul -- 1305 (9.1%)
Tommy Thompson -- 1039 (7.3%)
Fred Thompson -- 203 (1.4%)
Rudy Giuliani -- 183 (1.3%)
Duncan Hunter -- 174 (1.2%)
John McCain -- 101 (1%)
John Cox -- 41 (0.1%)

14,302 total ballots cast.

One question: What is the significance of all this? It's 15 months before the election and we are supposed to read all sorts of importance into a straw poll of voters in one state?

I'm sorry. I just think it's too much, too soon.