{"id":9816,"date":"2011-05-23T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9816"},"modified":"2011-05-23T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:26:54","slug":"pawlenty-in-iowa-no-win-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9816\/pawlenty-in-iowa-no-win-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawlenty in Iowa No-Win Situation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" mce_href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/56_126\/Tim-Pawlenty-Banks-on-Iowa-205836-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10329:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/issues\/56_126\/Tim-Pawlenty-Banks-on-Iowa-205836-1.html?ET=rollcall:e10329:80108870a:&amp;st=email&amp;pos=epol\"><i>Roll Call<\/i><\/a> speculates that with governors Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR) not running for president in 2012, the possibility of Tim Pawlenty winning the Iowa caucuses is diminished.&nbsp; With T-Paw\u2019s operation making him look like an earlier frontrunner in Iowa, maybe he\u2019ll get no steam heading into the New Hampshire primary.<\/p>\n<p>That seems unlikely for one important reason.&nbsp; As of today, the New Hampshire primary is expected to be on February 14<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 eight days after Iowa\u2019s caucuses.&nbsp; If that holds, the media won\u2019t be able to stop talking about Pawlenty\u2019s immediate frontrunner status.&nbsp; The media will crave a news story and a T-Paw win will put his campaign front and center.<\/p>\n<p>If Pawlenty wins Iowa, all eyes will be on him.&nbsp; If he loses, he may be one more loss away from irrelevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roll Call speculates that with governors Mitch Daniels (R-IN) and Mike Huckabee (R-AR) not running for president in 2012, the possibility of Tim Pawlenty winning the Iowa caucuses is diminished.&nbsp; With T-Paw\u2019s operation making him look like an earlier frontrunner in Iowa, maybe he\u2019ll get no steam heading into the New Hampshire primary. That seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,2723,201,913,2722,1096],"class_list":["post-9816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-iowa-caucuses","tag-mike-huckabee","tag-mitch-daniels","tag-new-hampshire-primary","tag-tim-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9818,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9816\/revisions\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}