A new Washington Post-ABC News poll asked people leaning Republican who they’d like John McCain to choose as his vice presidential running-mate. The results of the national survey show Gov. Tim Pawlenty with an asterisk, in a nine-way tie for ninth place.

Insider handicappers often rank Pawlenty and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist at the top of the veep heap, but the Post-ABC poll’s randomly selected American adults appear to rely on names they recognize, leaving Pawlenty, Crist and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Tex.) with the support of only a half-percent or less, same as they had at the beginning of March. “No opinion” swamped the field (47 percent), followed by Mitt Romney (12), Mike Huckabee (7, tied with “it’s up to him,” down from 17 in March), Condoleezza Rice (5), Colin Powell (3), Rudy Giuliani (2), four others who are tied with 1 percent each, and unnamed others who together had 9 percent.