TIM PAWLENTY popularity and TIM PAWLENTY trends

In my story today on the homepage, I take a look at Rick Perry's attempt to reestablish himself as the center of gravity for Texas politics: Unlike other failed White House candidates — Tim Pawlenty, for example — Perry has declined to become one of many full-time foot soldiers for Mitt Romney’s general election campaign. And unlike Sarah Palin, another superstar governor who flamed out as a ...

Yesterday, Politico reported that the Romney campaign had come to an important strategic decision that basically boiled down to, "Let's take all the really stupid things the McCain campaign did in 2008 and not do them. Not do them HARD!" To wit, rather than pick some untested non-white or non-male running mate, they were going to look for an “incredibly boring white guy.” Well, one perso...

Newt Gingrich’s check bounces but he and Ron Paul are still in, everyone is endorsing Mitt Romney, Claire McCaskill had a good quarter and Tim Pawlenty is finally done. Make sure to sign up to get “Afternoon Fix” in your e-mail inbox every day by 5 (ish) p.m! Read full article >>

Frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney, will be "a great president" former rival and now supporter Tim Pawlenty tells Newsnight.

I don't expect that Rick Santorum will be our next president, despite his near-win in Iowa and likely a decent showing in tomorrow's New Hampshire...

Rick Perry was the real deal. Tim Pawlenty was the candidate to watch. Columnist Doyle McManus confesses his year's errors and omissions (and a couple of things he got right).A year ago, soon after the Tunisian uprising, I demonstrated my powers of prediction in a column about the democracy movement in the Arab world. The revolution in Tunisia, I wrote, "arose from local circumstances that don'...