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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!I first met Tim Pawlenty when he came by for an interview with Newsweek reporters and editors at the 2008 Republican Convention in Minnesota. He had been passed over for the vice presidency, and the slight was still raw. You could tell he was hurting -- more by his body language than anything he said. He walked us through the vice-presidential vetting process, which for him was quite extensive, as questions swirled about how much the Republican nominee, John McCain, knew about Sarah Palin, his surprise pick, and the pregnancy of her teenage daughter, which dominated news coverage as the ...
Sarah Palin's fan dance -- will she or won't she run for president in 2012? -- teases money from supporters and seduces the celebrity-centric media. Yet, before too long, the former governor and her devoted followers will face a sobering reality. Should she seek the Republican nomination, she not only will confront several White House-minded candidates in her own party but also the unalterable facts of American political history. To be tactful about the subject: Voters haven't been particularly kind to losing vice-presidential nominees of either party for nearly a century. Interestingly, ...
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