Pawlenty 6th in new Gallup presidential poll

Gov. Tim Pawlenty tied for 6th in a Gallup poll on presidential hopefuls released on Thursday. The poll surveyed Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Mitt Romney topped the poll, followed by Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. Pawlenty has struggled to make it out of single digits in surveys and straw polls over the last year.

Romney garnered 19 percent in the poll followed by Palin at 16 percent and Huckabee with 12 percent. Newt Gingrich got 9 percent and Ron Paul, 7 percent. Pawlenty tied with Haley Barbour with 3 percent each. Rick Santorum, John Thune and Mitch Daniels each got 2 percent. Mike Pence, Gary Johnson and Chris Christie rounded out the bottom with 1 percent.

The poll follows a McClatchy poll last week that showed Pawlenty in 5th place with 6 percent.

Also this year, a Public Policy Polling poll of GOP contenders in New Hampshire showed Pawlenty in sixth place with 5 percent. A similar survey in July also had Pawlenty in sixth, but with only 3 percent.

Recent straw polls have also shown similar results. At CPAC in February, he finished fourth behind Ron Paul, Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin. He tied for sixth place at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in April, with 3 percent. That same month he again tied for sixth in the Iowa Straw Poll sponsored by the Republican Party of Iowa, garnering one percent of the vote.

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