Bull Moose Base
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« on: August 14, 2011, 08:57:06 AM » |
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I don't recall a first drop-out ever being someone considered a frontrunner so recently before. Until the NH debate two months ago, when Pawlenty wouldn't say it to Romney's face and Bachmann showed she had better syntax than Palin, he was on Romney's heels on intrade and considered by some to be the frontrunner.
Will Gingrich use the Pawlenty news for cover to bow out too? Or is he waiting for Palin's announcement? Her descent into irrelevance for 2012 has been pretty remarkable itself.
Who would have guessed at the beginning of this year that come mid-August, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Barbour, Thune, Daniels, Palin would be a list of people not running for president? And if Gingrich and Johnson are added to list soon, it'd be even more surprising from the perspective of 7-8 months ago.
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