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Gov. Tim Pawlenty travels to Iowa this weekend to headline a Republican fundraiser, simply the latest evidence that he’s seriously eyeing a 2012 run for president. But according to the latest poll looking at potential GOP presidential contenders, Pawlenty continues to lag well behind his likely rivals. Only 32 percent of Republicans polled would “seriously consider” voting for Pawlenty in 2012, according to a new Gallup survey. By contrast 48 percent indicated that they would not entertain supporting him for president.
Pawlenty’s figures lagged well behind those of other potential GOP contenders. Mike Huckabee was deemed worthy of serious consideration by 71 percent of Republicans, while Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney were judged credible contenders by 65 percent of GOP respondents. Among all of those surveyed, just 25 percent deemed Pawlenty qualified to be president, while twice as many held the opposite view.
The Gallup survey polled 1,021 adults across the country. It had a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. It’s the third recent poll to indicate that Pawlenty has considerable work to do if he intends to make a credible bid for the GOP nomination in 2012.
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Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 11:13 am
HA HA HA!
Looks like your work is cut out for you T-paw!
It looks like you should “pull a palin” and resign…
minnesotans are tired of paying you while you work on your campaign!
Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 11:44 am
Though I disagree with Mr. Pawlenty’s governing philosophy, surely he is more qualified – in competency, understanding, and knowledge senses – to be president than Sarah Palin, who’s ignorance of governance is regularly on full display.
I can’t imagine what the poll sample participants were thinking …. maybe because i’m not from their point of view of course.
Don’t knowledge, experience, expertise matter to Republicans?
Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 11:53 am
Mill, I doubt it. I mean, just look at who they picked to be their presidential candidate… in 2000…. in 2004…. AND in 2008….
Personally, I think Mitt Romney would pose a greater threat to President Obama than either Huckabee or Palin.
Mitt Romney doesn’t have the stench of the Religious Right to put up with, but that’s exactly the biggest reason he won’t get anywhere in the Republican Party. The Republican Party has proven itself to be more and more of a Christian theocracy than a democratic/republic-orientated party.
Comment posted November 5, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
Don’t write him off yet. I predict he will soon be out-doing Bachmann with ridiculous statements and stunts. How low can he go? As low as it takes.
Comment posted November 6, 2009 @ 9:17 am
He is perfectly qualified to be president…
He is a known liar, has put his personal agendas aside for monied interests, and always screws the poor and indigent.
Presidential Perfection!
Comment posted November 7, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
Are you kidding me? No one is LESS qualified than Obama who was set up as a puppet at that Democratic convention years ago and then never served in congress and was driving into presidency by morons who like to hear a lot of b.s. from a turd. For real? You people are morons.
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