Would TPaw Have Beaten Ellison in 2018 MN AG GE?

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Had he pulled a Pat Quinn but actually won the ag primary, would he have beaten Ellison? I would say yes, Ellison plurality won against a pretty awful opponent, I think TPaw could have squeaked out 48-47. Thoughts?

[Holmes]

Nah.

[Skunk]

Obviously not.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

imagine Tim Pawlenty getting a second career as an actor specializing in roles as assassins

[Progressive Pessimist]

Tim Pawlenty and "winning" (or any synonym for it) don't belong in the same sentence.

[Blair]

He couldn't even win a primary against a very sh**tty lower tier no-one

[lfromnj]

#populist Franken Trump voters in the iron range support Ellison's beating but a few were appealed to by Wardlow but would never support RINO TPAW.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

No. He might've even done worse than Wardlow who was terrible but largely unknown. Pawlenty was already a known unpopular quantity amongst many.

[Continential]

No. He might've even done worse than Wardlow who was terrible but largely unknown. Pawlenty was already a known unpopular quantity amongst many.

I think Jeff Johnson would win in the MN AG race.

[KaiserDave]

No, base turnout collapses dramatically in western Minnesota (the Peterson district) and Pawlenty's improvements in the suburbs can only make up for it so much, making him lose by about 2.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I met Tim Pawlenty once, and the picture we took was my FB profile picture for years. Pretty sad. Very low energy. Then I met Roger Stone and changed it.

[PAK Man]

Nope. I still maintain that Tim Pawlenty is one of the most overrated politicians in recent history. He only barely won two gubernatorial contests, but everyone thinks he's a complete god. His loss in the 2018 gubernatorial primary proved that to me.