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Low on cash and down in polls, Pawlenty bets future on Iowa
Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
Jul. 8, 2011 10:00 am
Trailing in polls and low on cash, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is betting the future of his presidential campaign on Iowa, where a late summer test vote could make or break him.
“We look to the Ames straw poll as a chance to show improvement,” Pawlenty said in an interview this week, acknowledging his lagging fortunes as he opened a 15-day Iowa campaign stretch a month before the state popularity contest that's often a launch pad or cemetery for White House hopefuls. “We have to show some reasonable improvement at the straw poll, and then we've got to be in a position to win, or come close to it, in the caucuses.”
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