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The Spectacle Blog
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is expected to take the first step toward running for president today, forming an exploratory committee. Pawlenty is to announce this on Facebook at 3 p.m. this afternoon, making him the first candidate to ever effectively declare on a social networking site. The committee will allow Pawlenty to begin to raise money and travel as a presidential candidate, though a formal declaration of candidacy probably won’t come until later this spring.
While this isn’t unexpected, Pawlenty’s announcement does move the 2012 campaign forward. The only other candidate to take this step so far is Herman Cain. Pawlenty still isn’t very well known, but his candidacy is taken seriously by the national press and his poll numbers are now several points ahead the bottom tier.
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Oldefarte| 3.21.11 @ 11:41AM
Good news! I like both Pawlenty and Cain as candidates, along with others as well. Am hesitent about Pawlenty's environmental ideas, but think I can live with same!!!!!
daboss| 3.21.11 @ 12:26PM
yawn ....
heard him on jason lewis's show and it was brutally boring.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.21.11 @ 12:42PM
Cain yes. Former global warming enthusiast never.
Andrew Keirns| 3.21.11 @ 12:51PM
Of course "his candidacy is taken seriously by the national press". So was McCain's. Ugh.
Bob| 3.21.11 @ 1:28PM
Oh joy another GOP dufus. Pawlenty reminds me of Bob Doleful the man with the mystery agenda. To this day I still don't know what Doleful stood for.
Alan Brooks| 3.21.11 @ 2:12PM
The field is TERRIBLY crowded.
daboss| 3.21.11 @ 4:20PM
can this get any more depressing?
Alan Brooks| 3.21.11 @ 2:11PM
Antle doesn't really think Cain or Pawlenty will ever make it to the White House, does he?
Occam's Tool| 3.21.11 @ 2:39PM
Pawlenty is not all that popular in MN among Republicans. He's dull.
TLS| 3.21.11 @ 3:58PM
"...not all that popular in MN among Republicans."
Didn't know MN had Republicans.
Bydand76| 3.21.11 @ 4:35PM
Michelle Bachmann?
TLS| 3.21.11 @ 4:40PM
It was a rhetorical statement; but yes, you are correct. And a good one she is too.
Jack| 3.21.11 @ 5:11PM
Is their anyone out there that is not a professional politician? We don't need a business as usual kind of guy or gal. I like Cain, Christie, Bachmann, West, Rubio or anyone that looks at issues from a reality viewpoint and not a political one. Politics in every issue is the problem.. nothing gets done.
I Survived Arlen Specter| 3.21.11 @ 5:34PM
Really! Tim Pawlenty is exploring a run for POTUS? I just can't contain my excitement zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Michael L. Hauschild| 3.21.11 @ 6:39PM
I sincerely hope that enough of the Danials and Pawlentys enter the fray in order to fractionate the primary field until a more national consensus, as opposed to a *regionalist” popularity contest, is created. Having an actual Convention is far more “Republican” (Constitutional Republic) and would allow everyone to “come together” behind the selected candidate, much more so than the typical “news release” of the primary process’s five "B" exclusions (bitter, begrudging, broken, battered, broke).
Spicy Joker| 3.21.11 @ 7:39PM
There is no one duller than Tim Pawlenty.
Eddie Willers| 3.21.11 @ 10:30PM
Can he carry Minnesota?
Bo| 3.22.11 @ 11:35AM
I doubt it, but he'd come a whole lot closer than Bachmann.