AM.MN: One hundred percent of Minnesota governors couldn’t care less

File this under “Beside the Point.” On its third day of Minnesota Poll stories, the Star Tribune carries the headline “Most don’t back a Pawlenty run” — as if the governor cares what Minnesotans think. Asked to tell his constituents where he’s been jetting in pursuit of the presidency, Pawlenty dismissively recommends a search engine: “You can Bing.” He “wouldn’t be doing the state’s business” anyway, T-Paw says. “The point is, I have the time and the energy and the ability to make some time …”

Elsewhere in Minnesota headlines this morning …

DULUTH: Surveyed residents circle the wagons in support of hometown. But it’s a Gallup Poll, not a “gallop poll.” [Duluth News Tribune]

MOORHEAD: Roving for student voters? Karl Rove speaks at Concordia College tonight before heading to St. Olaf College for another speech Thursday. [Morris Sun Tribune]

ST. LOUIS PARK: That new furniture smell. U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s anti-formaldehyde bill was inspired by a cheap, foreign-made cabinet she bought on moving to Washington, D.C. [Bemidji Pioneer]

ST. PAUL: Republicans expand complaint. Now the state GOP is fingering Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak as well as St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman for running undeclared campaigns for governor while seeking re-election to their current jobs. [Star Tribune]

ST. PAUL: Mayoral rivals set election-eve debate. That throws a wrench in Coleman’s plans to crisscross the state the night before the election. [City Hall Scoop]

ROCHESTER: More kicking and punching. This time it was an airplane, not a goose statue, that took the abuse. [Associated Press]