A SurveyUSA/KSTP poll says that Minnesotans are against Governor Pawlenty seeking a third term. The margin is 57% to 31%.
Although people often talk of US Senators as being obvious candidates for President, President Obama is the first one to reach that office since JFK [1961]who was the first since Warren Harding [1921]. Governors have done better and several governors have run for President in recent years. Most, including Carter and Reagan waited until they were former governors, but Bill Clinton and W were sitting governors when they were elected.
[Clinton even had to take time off the campaign trail to go to Arkansas and sign a death warrant. He did not want anybody to think he was soft on criminals. W, being the leading civilian executioner in US history did not have that problem.]
I don’t know which would work best for Pawlenty. You would think that GOP bigwigs would blanch at selecting somebody who has never received a majority of his state’s vote, especially when he hasn’t even been able to make his own state red. So it would not surprise me if Pawlenty ran again to achieve that majority.
Of course, he might lose.
Richard Nixon was elected President after losing a gubernatorial election. But [with memories of Lloyd Bentsen talking to Dan Quayle] Pawlenty, you are no Dick Nixon. And if you don’t measure up to Nixon, how low must you be?
Although people often talk of US Senators as being obvious candidates for President, President Obama is the first one to reach that office since JFK [1961]who was the first since Warren Harding [1921]. Governors have done better and several governors have run for President in recent years. Most, including Carter and Reagan waited until they were former governors, but Bill Clinton and W were sitting governors when they were elected.
[Clinton even had to take time off the campaign trail to go to Arkansas and sign a death warrant. He did not want anybody to think he was soft on criminals. W, being the leading civilian executioner in US history did not have that problem.]
I don’t know which would work best for Pawlenty. You would think that GOP bigwigs would blanch at selecting somebody who has never received a majority of his state’s vote, especially when he hasn’t even been able to make his own state red. So it would not surprise me if Pawlenty ran again to achieve that majority.
Of course, he might lose.
Richard Nixon was elected President after losing a gubernatorial election. But [with memories of Lloyd Bentsen talking to Dan Quayle] Pawlenty, you are no Dick Nixon. And if you don’t measure up to Nixon, how low must you be?
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