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(50,618 posts) Wed Aug 15, 2018, 03:03 PM Aug 2018

Scary observation about Pawlenty's loss [View all]

The polls were on his side. He won twice and probably would have won three times had he chose to run again.

But he lost because of his disdain to Trump in 2016 which he recanted later.

I always thought that Minnesota Republicans were level headed, not rabid (except for cray Michele Bachmann and Jason Lewis). I was even proud of them that they chose Rubio in their caucuses, staying away from pugnacious Cruz and Trump.

But now the Minnesota Republican party is Trump party. All of us should be concerned about it, really.

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Scary observation about Pawlenty's loss [View all] question everything Aug 2018 OP

Democrats also amassed over 260,000 more votes in their primary. bearsfootball516 Aug 2018 #1

And from what I recall, Pawlenty was not exactly liked, otherwise, a typical repug ... nt SWBTATTReg Aug 2018 #2

No, he was a total douche. He was a smilier version of Scott Walker The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #5

You have to wonder what would exboyfil Aug 2018 #3

All state GOPs have become trumpified, it would seem. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #4

But Pawlenty won partly because the Independence Party candidates sucked DFL votes. geardaddy Aug 2018 #7

True. He only won with pluralities dflprincess Aug 2018 #10

An interesting point from the PBS NewsHour question everything Aug 2018 #9

Esp since Bannon claimed MN is thier number one target to go MAGA next . Stay strong ! lunasun Aug 2018 #6

The GOP only got 35% of the votes cast yesterday. LakeSuperiorView Aug 2018 #8

Reputations don't last these days BlueWI Aug 2018 #11

Anybody have the data from the 2002 and 2006 Republican primaries? trotsky Aug 2018 #12