Tim Pawlenty News

Looking ahead to the 2012 presidential election, 71% of Republicans say they would seriously consider voting for Mike Huckabee.

Farmers are getting some relief thanks to Governor Pawlenty.The Governor signed an Emergency Executive Order allowing truck drivers to work overtime while in the process of obtaining and transporting diesel fuel, propane and anhydrous ammonia for farm use.Pawlenty says without relief, farmers won't be able to obtain needed supplies of diesel fuel ...

Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections.

ARE the Republicans storming back towards national power? Or do the party's ideological divisions doom it to irrelevance? Democrats looking for hope amid the ashes of this week's elections point to New York's 23rd district.

The first key votes of the Obama era take place this week, not on the floor of the House or Senate, where health-care legislation still languishes, but in Virginia, New Jersey and northern New York state, where President Obamaa s endorsements of threatened Democratic candidates will test his political clout a year after his own election.

It is harvest season in Iowa. For Republicans who want to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, though, it is time to start planting seeds.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is postponing a brief trade trip to Mexico, saying that President Felipe Calderon has a scheduling conflict.

Minnesota's big-city mayors breezed to easy victories Tuesday in an off-year election notable for Minneapolis' launch of instant-runoff voting -- and St.

Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections energized by victories in Virginia and New Jersey, but their leaders immediately began maneuvering to avoid a prolonged battle with conservative activists over what the party stands for and how to regain power.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Bakk is pressing for a special session to pass a construction projects bill before the end of the year.

Glad crime is low in high taxed places like New York and California. If you want to debate, don't make foolish arguments.

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Republican Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governor's race on Tuesday in an upset victory taking 63% of the vote, U.S. media predicted, seizing back the governorship from the Democrats.

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From the ever predictable New York Times : By JEREMY W. PETERS November 4, 2009 SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - Democrats won a special election in New York State's northernmost Congressional district Tuesday, a setback for national conservatives who heavily promoted a third candidate in what became an intense debate over the direction of the Republican Party ...

Robert McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor in Virginia, greeting voters in Glen Allen.

Obama and the Democrats are in a popularity slump 12 months after seizing control of Washington in the 2008 general election.

Eds: APNewsNow; Will be led from 9 a.m. news conference. ST. PAUL, Minn. Exactly one year from the 2010 election, former State Auditor Pat Anderson is sketching out what she'd do as Minnesota governor.

With his second term set to expire at the end of next year, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is widely considered a likely contender for the 2012 Republican nomination.

A special election for an open seat in the U.S House of Representatives has turned into a high-profile proxy war over how the party should come back from the stinging losses of both the House and Senate in 2006 and the White House in 2008.