{"id":4169,"date":"2011-08-14T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2011-08-14T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T18:24:52","slug":"breaking-tim-pawlenty-drops-out-of-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/breaking-tim-pawlenty-drops-out-of-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Tim Pawlenty Drops Out of Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will end his bid for 2012 Republican presidential nomination after a disappointing third place finish in the Iowa straw poll.<\/p>\n<p>No link yet, I&#8217;ll update this as soon as I have more.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Update<\/strong>:<\/span> Ok here&#8217;s the Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/08\/14\/pawlenty-to-drop-gop-presidential-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">story on Gov. Pawlenty&#8217;s withdrawal<\/a>&#8230; The Associated Press has more <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ex-minn-gov-tim-pawlenty-ends-white-house-124623539.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m a little disappointed to see Gov. Pawlenty withdraw this early in the race. I know many people like to minimize the importance of the Ames straw poll, but the fact is Gov. Pawlenty made sizable investment Iowa, he worked the ground game over a year, and poured most of his remaining campaign funds into this effort and still finished a distant third.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I don&#8217;t see how he go back to potential donors after this and convince them to pour more money into an effort that hasn&#8217;t gained much traction.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Edit<\/strong>:<\/span> A few random thoughts in no particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As I said I&#8217;m sorry to see Gov. Pawlenty drop out this early in the race, but he always struck me as a bit of long shot and he never seemed generated the kind of buzz a presidential candidate needs.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m going to go out on limb with this, but I suspect Herman Cain may be the next to withdraw. Mr. Cain has generated enough buzz to keep his campaign going for a while longer, but his disappointing showing in the Ames Straw Poll makes me wonder if he&#8217;ll make it to the New Hampshire primary.<\/li>\n<li>Former Senator Rick Santorum&#8217;s surprisingly good showing in Ames breathes new life into what seemed like a lost cause.\u00a0 It&#8217;s worth keeping an eye on him to see he can capitalize on his success in the Ames Straw Poll&#8230; He may turn out to be the campaigns new dark horse.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Palin, I think she&#8217;s running&#8230; If she is she has to make it official sooner rather than later. I won&#8217;t claim to speak for all of her supporters, but personally, I&#8217;m getting a little bored with all the flirting, if you&#8217;re running, quit screwing around and make it official&#8230; If not get off the stage and stop stealing the spotlight from the real candidates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News is reporting former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will end his bid for 2012 Republican presidential nomination after a disappointing third place finish in the Iowa straw poll. No link yet, I&#8217;ll update this as soon as I have more. Update: Ok here&#8217;s the Fox News story on Gov. Pawlenty&#8217;s withdrawal&#8230; The Associated Press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[474,7],"tags":[748,803],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-breaking-news","category-politics","tag-2012-elections","tag-tim-pawlenty","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-15f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4164,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/13\/rep-michele-bachmann-wins-iowa-straw-poll\/","url_meta":{"origin":4169,"position":0},"title":"Rep. 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Ditto for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, he's to much of a lighting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3660,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/04\/2012-republican-presidential-primary-straw-poll\/","url_meta":{"origin":4169,"position":2},"title":"2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll","author":"Jeff","date":"November 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for round two of our 2012 Republican Presidential Primary Straw Poll. The candidates are (in not particular order): Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, John Thune, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, John Kasich, John Huntsman and John Bolton. 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The candidates in this round are (in no particular order): Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, John Kasich, John Huntsman, John Bolton, Jeb Bush, Liz\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4062,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/18\/ron-paul-wins-rlc-straw-poll-huntsman-second\/","url_meta":{"origin":4169,"position":4},"title":"Ron Paul Wins RLC Straw Poll; Huntsman Second","author":"Jeff","date":"June 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Normally I'd greet the news that Ron Paul had won the Republican Leadership Conference straw poll with a yawn and an eye roll... You might say his victory was a forgone conclusion, I can't remember the last time he didn't win a CPAC or RLC straw poll. 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