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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee was the top choice of 29 percent of Republican voters to be the party’s 2012 presidential nominee, according to a new national survey by Rasmussen Reports. Finishing a close second, with support from 24 percent of those polled, was former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. Also drawing considerable support were former [...]

Norm Coleman went farther than other Republican eminences have in moving from praise to outright endorsement of Gov. Tim Pawlenty for higher office: “If that’s what he chooses to do … I think he’d make a great president.”

Another day, another GOP father figure vouching for Gov. Pawlenty’s presidential prospects. Now it’s Newt Gingrich, who has shared microphones and bylines with Pawlenty, saying T-Paw is “certainly going to be a player. There is every reason he should run. There is wide open field right now.”
Elsewhere in Minnesota news this morning …

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 [...]

Tim Pawlenty travels the country, speaking to whoever will invite him about the GOP’s future and other topics. He’s refrained from announcing any extramarital affairs or his impending resignation. But the Minnesota governor’s support as a 2012 presidential prospect among Republicans nationally remains low, according to a new Gallup Poll.

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.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty has crapped out of the elite eight in National Public Radio’s contest to see who will head the Republican ticket in 2012. After surviving a tough battle against former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, T-Paw got blindsided by South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint. The eighth seed had already shocked former Arkansas Gov. Mike [...]

Gov. Tim Pawlenty is dancing into the Sweet 16. Boasting an impressive No. 2 seed, T-Paw dispatched former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo in the opening round of National Public Radio’s 32-candidate contest to pick the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
Up next for Pawlenty, however, is a redoubtable darling of the conservative base: Newt Gingrich. In early [...]

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 [...]

The Jed Report has produced a video highlight reel of right-wing commenters bashing the Republican presidential effort — a dozen talking heads pillorying Sen. John McCain in just over two minutes’ time. See a conservative chorus consisting of George F. Will, Brit Hume, Paul Gigot and their ilk, all singing in the key of ridicule, [...]