Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty has withdrawn from the race for the GOP presidential nomination, dropping out just hours after finishing third in the Iowa straw poll. “I wish it would have been different. But obviously the pathway forward for me doesn’t really exist so we are going to end the campaign,” Pawlenty said on [...]

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Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota won the Republican straw poll in Iowa last night, giving her campaign a boost while marring the future of her home-state competition, former governor Tim Pawlenty. Bachmann won 28.6 percent of the votes, becoming the first female candidate to win the informal contest in a state that holds the first-in-the-nation [...]

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The media enjoys getting a laugh (or twenty) out of mocking the educational backgrounds of recent Republican candidates entering the presidential race. So how educated are these candidates really? Here, we break down exactly what degree each possesses… and what their chances for success really are. Check it out in the infographic below. Created by: [...]

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Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is officially launching his campaign for president today (Monday). Pawlenty will announce his candidacy at a town hall event in Iowa. In a video his camp released on Sunday previewing his big announcement, Pawlenty declares, “I’m running for president of the United States.” The launch of Pawlenty’s 2012 campaign comes [...]

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I guess next time, Minnesota’s Democratic Party will check all outbound links before issuing a news release. On Thursday, the party recalled a statement in which it criticized Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty due to the fact that the release linked out to that NSFW YouTube video of a Chinese grandmother repeating obscenities. Andrew O’Leary, executive [...]

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