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Tim Pawlenty’s Record and Campaign Challenges: What Minnesota Thinks

With Super Tuesday less than a year away, John Avlon handicaps the first mainstream 2012 GOP candidate to officially explore a run. Can T-Paw overcome his mixed record, charisma deficit, and being everybody's second choice?

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Tim Pawlenty’s path to the Republican nomination seems to depend on being everyone’s second choice. But the record will show that he was the first major 2012 candidate to announce a presidential

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