Pawlenty removed from general election poll match-ups
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 5:05 pm
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In a sign that former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s campaign is still struggling, Public Policy Polling announced Monday night that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will replace Pawlenty in general election polling match-ups against Pres. Barack Obama.
Pawlenty will still be included in the organization’s Republican primary polls, but his removal from this company’s general election poll match-ups bodes badly for Pawlenty, who has faltered in recent polls, leading some observers to speculate that his campaign is sinking.
Public Policy Polling said on their Twitter account Monday that Pawlenty now comes in eighth place in their Republican general election polls.
Just a few days ago, someone leaked a letter from Pawlenty Campaign Manager Nick Ayers reassuring campaign workers that Pawlenty was still a viable candidate:
“National polls are largely irrelevant to the race at this stage but are great media fodder. If they mattered this early, Obama would have never beat Clinton, and McCain would have never beaten Giuliani and Thompson who were both leading in polls by a significant margin in July 2007.”
As the Minnesota Independent noted last week, Pawlenty’s eggs are increasingly in the Iowa Straw Poll basket. If he doesn’t perform well in that straw poll, which measures organizational strength, he’ll likely not be able to continue in the race.
Ayers dismissed claims that Pawlenty’s campaign is failing:
[Y]ou would be hard pressed to find this counter narrative in some press stories of late. I don’t blame them, they have a job to do. That doesn’t mean their interpretation is accurate and in this instance they have not extrapolated all of the facts. We all know that campaigns ebb and flow. The reality is things are never as good as they seem, and things are never as bad as they seem.
Ayers went on in the letter to predict that Pawlenty would earn the nomination and beat Obama in 2012.
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Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 6:48 am
Here’s all anyone needs to know about the policy values of Tm Pawlenty:
“Children who are victims of failed personal responsibility are not my problem, nor are they the problem for our government.” — Majority Leader Tim Pawlenty, April 2001 – as quoted in the Aitkin Independent Newspaper
Actually, that’s the policy values of virtually ALL of today’s GOPers; just look at how they proposed to balance Minnesota’s budget – on the backs of schools.
Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 11:01 am
T-Paw and his Renewable Energy Mandates Are responsible for the ever rising utility rates we all pay. His energy mandates are also responsible for the loss of local control for counties attempting to regulate 4oo plus foot powerplants from being placed next to it’s citizens homes as seen in the controversial AWA Goodhue wind project. The ability for local officials to protect the rights of its citizens has been taken from them. T-Paw’s best buddy T. Boone in reaping a multi-million dollar reward at all our expense. Our tax dollars are funding a C-BED(community based project) that is 99% owned by T.Boone. For being C-BED they get an additional 50 million from the 1603 tax grant ment for local MN business. Somehow I just dont see how 99% T.Boone owned qualifies as 51% MN ownership? I guess if your T-Boone with a friend like T.Paw you can make anything work. Will T.Boone be contributing to T.Paw’s election should the project go forward??????
Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 1:13 pm
“We all know that campaigns ebb and flow.” Just out of curiousity, when did Pawlenty’s campaign “flow”? All I’ve seen is ebbing from an already marginal position.
Comment posted July 20, 2011 @ 1:33 pm
Before any indulges any schadenfreude, remember that the sooner his campaign ends, the sooner he comes back here. Is that what we really want? I’ve been predicting he wouldn’t get past the early primaries, but I hope he lasts that long.
Comment posted July 21, 2011 @ 5:35 am
Knock it off – TP will be VP someday – someway – somewhere.
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