The funniest part of Romney's weak weak third place showing in Minnesota . . . .

[grantcart]

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RICK SANTORUM 21420 votes 44.81%

RON PAUL 13023 27.24%

MITT ROMNEY 8090 16.92%

NEWT GINGRICH 5128 10.73%


Mitt Romney probably thought making Pawlenty one of his most visible surrogates would mean something, even in Minnesota.

And Tim Pawlenty also thought that his endorsing of Mitt would also mean something.

One of the greatest examples of political nothingness ever demonstrated in history.

Gee Tim I guess your VP selection hopes just went down the drain when you couldn't even deliver a second place primary result. On the bright side Tim you did keep Mitt out of 4th place by a couple thousand votes.

Given that Pawlenty must have some support in Minnesota you have to wonder how many votes Mitt would have gotten with no Pawlenty endoresement.


http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/290501/tee-pawed-john-j-miller
National Review just made the same conclusion

I like Pawlenty. Last year, when it became clear that Mitch Daniels and a few others weren’t going to run for president, and before Pawlenty himself dropped out, it might have been fair to call me a “Pawlenty leaner.” So I say this with no pleasure: His endorsement delivered nothing. Romney finished third in Minnesota — a distant third, no less. So if Romney wins the nomination, will anybody say that choosing Pawlenty for veep will turn Minnesota from Democratic blue to Republican red? Not after what just happened.

[Itchinjim]

1. A less than 50k GOP turn out? Wow.

This can't bode well for them.

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

2. I Must Be Too Far From Minnesota To Understand Inverted Equations.

Is liberal not a word in this equation, or is Florida is more liberal than Minnesota?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Minnesota, in general, is more liberal than Florida.

However, because both parties use a caucus system during primaries (though the results are non-binding), the "true believers" are the ones who participate. And although in Minnesota the GOP lunatic fringe is not especially large, it is especially loony. The total turnout was small but those who did turn out were mainly the nutball evangelicals - the same bunch who keep re-electing Michelle Bachmann (the 6th Congressional District is particularly demented).

[Thaddeus Kosciuszko]

18. You Are Correct--It Must Have Been The Triple Play That Startled Me.

[MiniMe]

3. They are having the primary that they get delegates from in a few weeks

Somebody needs to call the repugs on this, they spent an extra 7 million dollars or so for a fake caucas.

[aquart]

7. So we have to pay attention to them in a couple of weeks?

Think of these endless ad buys as finally forcing the uberrich to support local economies.

[Major Hogwash]

15. Eggs-actly. No delegates were doled out.

Oh, did I say "doled", as in "Dole"?

OMG, who said that?

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I'd say Michele Bachmann's silence was deafening.

She didn't endorse anyone after she dropped out of the race.

[customerserviceguy]

5. And they all breathed a sigh of relief. n/t

[denem]

14. Backmann wasn't silent - She re-endorsed herself.

The perfect candidate.

[DrDan]

6. seems to me the biggest message here is that all voters represent less than 4% of the McCain vote

count from 2008. Obviously, the turnout would be less than a Presidential election - but less that 4%???

The R's just do not like this lineup.

[grantcart]

11. 4% really? 4% wow

[DrDan]

16. yep - about 50K votes cast in Minnesota for all 4 candidates - as compared to just

under 1.3M Minnesota votes for McCain in 2008.

Obviously there will be many less primary voters . . . but 4%? These R's just do not like this list of candidates.

[peacebird]

8. Bwahaha! At least mittens still beat the grinch!

[CanonRay]

9. Naw, I think the Trump endorsement put him over the top...to third.

[livetohike]

10. Good one!

Too bad the MSM doesn't analyze these things the way DU sees it .

[grantcart]

17. snort

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. The endorsement of Timmy "The Tool" Pawlenty

along with $2.00 will buy you a double-skim latte at Starbucks. Pawlenty is about as popular here as a case of hemorrhoids, even though he went all Jesus-y last election cycle to try to suck up the nutball vote. The Bachmann wackjob contingent of the GOP doesn't like him much because they thought he was too moderate when he was governor (he isn't, but sometimes he pretended to be because he had to work with a Dem legislature), and everybody else hates him because he did his best to turn the state into a cold Alabama. He's kind of a Romney himself, without the money or the charisma.