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Is Tim Pawlenty the Process-of-Elimination Candidate?
That’s part of the takeaway from Crowley’s magazine profile, hitting newsstands Friday: But in a strange way, the stars could be aligning for Pawlenty. It’s been...
Pawlenty’s Moment
Tim Pawlenty has already been running for President for weeks and even months now. But candidates nowadays stretch out the process of announcing their...
Tim Pawlenty: So Right, Something Is Wrong
Walter Shapiro, writing in The New Republic, gets at the center of the Tim Pawlenty zeitgeist with a new profile, a piece that not only features the phrase...
Pawlenty’s Hope
It remains entirely possible, despite his summer slump, that Tim Pawlenty will win Iowa, and all the attendant money and momentum that comes with that feat...
Pawlenty Had That Not-So-Special Something Republicans Need in 2012
As Adam mentioned, on paper, Tim Pawlenty fit the profile of the perfect Republican presidential candidate: A blue-state governor with blue-collar roots, a...
Tim Pawlenty Becomes a Romney Surrogate
It’d be a mistake to overstate the impact of a single endorsement, especially one from a one-time rival who never commanded much in the way of national...
Tim Pawlenty Jokingly Compares Obama to ‘Bizarre Foods’ Host Andrew Zimmern
The fact that Pawlenty's throwaway line during a convention speech is being parsed doesn't speak wonders for the politician's comedic skills
Tim Pawlenty Says He Is Worse Off Than He Is
It’s always a bad sign when a candidate for President of the United States makes the case that he is actually doing worse in the polls than he is. Here is Tim...
Is Iowa Pawlenty’s Last Stand?
As the Ames straw poll approaches, the chattering class is chattering about whether Tim Pawlenty can carry on after anything but a first-place finish on...
Pawlenty’s Truth
Having just finished a big profile of Tim Pawlenty, I thought I’d offer some thoughts on his Official Announcement Day. The first is that his timing couldn’t...
GOP Debate Preview: Will Pawlenty Be a Giant–or a Pygmy?
Tonight in South Carolina, Fox News will televise something that purports to be a 2012 Republican presidential primary debate. In truth it will be an almost...
Re: Pawlenty’s Truth
Crowley astutely points to Tim Pawlenty’s opening theme of “truth,” interpreting it as both a way to market the former governor’s vanilla Midwestern personality...
Iowa Poll “Very Good News for Pawlenty”?
More than a week after his official campaign kickoff that included a tour through multiple morning shows and several cities, Tim Pawlenty still has plenty of...
Bachmann, Pawlenty Spar in Iowa Debate, but Status Quo Survives
Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Ames, Iowa, saw the first face-to-face hostility of the 2012 campaign. After an early round of...
Huntsman, Pawlenty Mulled Health Care Mandates
The conventional wisdom among the political punditry is that 2012 Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney will be hamstrung by the health-insurance plan he helped...
Always the Bridesmaid: What’s Next for Tim Pawlenty?
Four years ago this month, Tim Pawlenty was walking his little black dog Mazy down an Eagan, Minn., cul-de-sac. John McCain had just called to break the news...
Handicapping the Veepstakes: Tim Pawlenty Makes More Sense Than You Might Think
Pawlenty's life story formed the narrative core of his ill-fated presidential run last year. Pawlenty was born into a pro-union household in a working-class...
Tim Pawlenty Ends His Presidential Campaign
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the presidential race on Sunday, citing a failure to capture momentum from Saturday’s Iowa straw poll and...
Liquid Courage: Pawlenty vs. Huntsman on Ethanol
Longtime corn ethanol supporter Tim Pawlenty has gotten a lot of good press for his allegedly courageous proposal to phase out ethanol subsidies, because...
