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Gov. Tim Pawlenty is certainly trying to gin up support for a 2012 presidential bid. Since announcing that he would not seek a third term, the lame-duck governor has been crisscrossing the country speaking to the Republican faithful. On Monday evening he was on Fox News chatting with Greta Van Susteren. But while the Drudge [...]

If Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s office still uses those “While You Were Out” notes, his Monday-morning stack would make interesting reading. During his weekend trip to Iraq, Pawlenty was called a GOP “star” like Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and his name came up in speculation about which unnamed governor was reportedly also serviced by one of former [...]

Across the country, Republican politicians glommed onto yesterday’s Tax Day Tea Party movement — much to the consternation of grassroots organizers. But in Minnesota, only one elected official put her name on the events: Rep. Michele Bachmann.

John McCain says he hasn’t settled on supporting Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for president in 2012, instead naming Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and two others as “very good candidates.” Video after the jump.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin faced a dilemma. Should she keep the federal stimulus funding her state is due or give it up? One rival for the helm of the Republican Party, Gov. Tim Pawlenty, chose to keep it. Another, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, first was going to give up $700 million, then decided to keep all [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty probably wishes he hadn’t been included in the presidential straw poll at the just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference. Pawlenty was the top choice of just 2 percent of voters to be the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2012.
The winner of the straw poll was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, garnering 20 percent of the [...]

New York Times columnist David Brooks was on PBS last night to analyze Barack Obama’s speech to both houses of Congress, as well as the rejoinder from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Giving the opposition rebuttal is never an easy task, especially when following a politician as commanding as Obama. But to put it kindly, Brooks [...]

Although the new president hasn’t even been sworn in yet, political junkies are looking ahead to 2012. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told Associated Press reporters on Wednesday that he won’t be on presidential ballots in four years. Jindal is being watched as one of the top Republican contenders together with Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee and, [...]

The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has assembled a list of 10 Republicans across the country who will be influential in trying to resurrect the party over the next four years. Conspicuously missing from the mix? Gov. Tim Pawlenty. While Cillizza explains his reasoning for other notables left off the list (Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee), [...]

The presidential election may have just ended, but it’s never too early to begin speculating on who might lead the Republicans from the electoral wilderness in 2012. While most chatter in recent days has focused on Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Tim Pawlenty is among the contenders. He places second (behind Jindal, of course) on [...]