Pawlenty near the bottom in GOP 2012 poll

Posted at 11:18 AM on October 16, 2009 by Tom Scheck (4 Comments)

Rasmussen Reports released a 2012 GOP preference poll and found that former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is the most popular. Huckabee received 29 percent support from those polled. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was second with 24 percent. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin received 18 percent and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich received 12 percent. 7 percent are undecided. 6 percent of those polled say they support some other candidate.

Governor Pawlenty, who is in California today to speak before the Western Conservative Political Action Committee, received 4 percent support.

Comments (4)

You make it sound like a big negative. He just started to go national. He isn't all that well known yet. What were Obama's numbers four years ago when he just started?
What percent of the audience share are you getting at this stage?

Posted by Steve Iversen | October 18, 2009 9:17 AM

It's a long time until the 2012 primary. Pawlenty needs a lot more name recognition to win the nomination but a VP nod is entirely possible.

Posted by jay | October 18, 2009 9:32 PM

Tim Pawlenty?

Has anyone backing Tim Pawlenty driven on a Highway, or Street, or Co. Rd. in Minnesota in the last few years? No? Well that's all that needs to be said but in case someone doesn't quite get it we can just sing a couple bars of "London Bridges Falling Down".

So Tim Pawlenty is going to rebuild our country! Improve everything, talk businesses into helping out like the "We're not bidding on that HiWay 62 Project"!

Tim P. will get the whole country in line to do nothing! Then he will brag about NOT having made up his mind while AVOIDING any responsibility for either good or evil.

Imagine a President who does nothing but dodge responsibility and call it a Virtue! Thats our boy Time. How do you make a virtue out of nothing? Ask Tim! He has some high flying words to explain why its someone elses fault!

Posted by John Vander Horck | October 19, 2009 8:26 PM

"You make it sound like a big negative. He just started to go national. He isn't all that well known yet. "

Guess again: They know him, all right -- 28% of them (the biggest number by far) gave his name when asked "Regardless of who you would vote for, which candidate would you least like to see win the Republican nomination in 2012?"

They know him, they hate him, they want nothing to do with him. But I hope he burns through a good $20 million before he figures that out and settles for losing the VP slot once again to Sarah Palin.

Posted by Phoenix Woman | October 21, 2009 10:26 PM

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