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It-boy Pawlenty debuts before Iowa GOP to strains of ‘It ain’t me’

By Chris Steller | 11.07.09 | 11:24 pm

tpaw iowa 6 revTaking his opening shot in the state that hosts the nation’s earliest presidential caucus, Gov. Tim Pawlenty could hardly miss by appealing to “Heartland values” that Minnesota shares with neighboring Iowa. But other parts of his Saturday-night speech to Republicans…